This activity book features 25 projects such as making a surface survey of a site, building a screen for sifting dirt and debris at a dig, tracking soil age by color, and counting tree rings to date a find, teaches kids the techniques that unearthed Neanderthal caves, Tutankhamun’s tomb, the city of Pompeii, and Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec empire. Kids will delight in fashioning a stone-age tool, playing a seriation game with old photographs of cars, “reading” objects excavated in their own backyards, and using patent numbers to date modern artifacts as they gain an overview of human history and the science that brings it back to life.

Richard Panchyk is coauthor of Engineering the City. He holds a master’s degree in anthropology and has taught college-level archaeology.

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Childrens: Nonfiction, Childrens: Education Resource
Age Range: 9 and UP
160 pages, Trade Paper, 11 x 8 1/2
60 B/W Photos, 19 Line Drawings, 4 Maps, Two-color Interior
Distribution Rights: WOR
$16.95 (CAN $18.95)
9781556523953 (1556523955)

Pub Date: October 2001

Chicago Review Press