Archaeology for Kids

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.