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The Mysterious
Bogpeople [Macromedia Flash Player]
Despite the seemingly spooky title of this site, visitors should not be afraid of entering and exploring around the contents of this very interactive site. Created through a collaborative partnership between organizations such as the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Drents Museum, this site concerns itself with the artifacts and material world created by the so-called “bogpeople” of northwestern Europe who lived approximately 10,000 years ago. Visitors can explore their world through sections that include “Science”, “Timeline”, “Profile” and “Mediatheatre”. The “Mediatheatre” section is a good place to start as visitors can view short film clips that cover the mysteries of the bog, fishing with a harpoon, and the fabled Ubbena wheel. Moving along, the “Timeline” area gives some nice chronological context to the events and transformations covered by the site, and the “Science” area includes some insights into what archaeologists do in the field. From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2007. http://scout.wisc.edu/ The Mysteries of Çatalhöyük Let your kids dig around in this really well-done archeology site. It lets kids explore a real dig in Turkey - a 9,000 year old neolithic village. There are interactive activies - I liked the neolithic kitchen, where you get to move ingredients around to cook a neolithic dinner. There are tons of videos - if it's not too creepy for your child, try the time-lapse video of the excavation of an infant burial site. In real time, it happened over two days, and you see it all in about a minute. It gives you an idea of how slow and careful archaeolgy work has to be. There's a game called "Excavation," where you get to drop "holes" on a photograph, revealing a small part of the image with each hole. You try to guess what the photograph shows, much as an archaeologist tries to figure out a village layout, one hole at a time.
Beachcombers:
Digital digging Harappa in 3-D ARCHAEOLOGY
Dig and Deduce http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/neanderthals/dig.html
It's only natural that we're curious about Neanderthals, our hominid kin
who, on an evolutionary time scale, died off so recently. How intelligent
were they? Did they interact with Cro Magnons? How closely related were they
to us? And then there's the big question: What was their ultimate fate? http://www.pacmuseum.qc.ca/quebec1690/jeu/english/index.htm
this is an underwater dig. You find the bits and build a picture of
who the sailors were and when. This EdNA search will give you archaeology in the School Education sector http://www.edna.edu.au/discover/index.html?queryText=archaeology§or=3830 A school webpage which has links to archaeology web sites:http://www.zeta.org.au/~staglib/history.html
Israel Museum's Virtual Dig http://2002.imj.org.il/arc-tel/index.html Explore Ancient Egypt - Virtual Dig http://www.mfa.org/egypt/explore_ancient_egypt/arch_virt.html INTERACTIVE DIG
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