Archaeology Learning Group

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Archaeology Learning Group

Cuyahoga Community College Summer Camp 2011

The Big Dig: Archaeological

Adventure

Instructor

Jeremy Freeman Archaeological Program Coordinator

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Monday

The Big Dig: Archaeological Adventure

8:30—9:00 am Introduction 9:00—10:00 am Lecture: Archaeological Methods 10:00 am—11:00 pm Activity: Refitting Station 11:00—11:30 pm Lunch 11:30—1:00 pm Activity: Mysterious Objects 1:00 —1:30 pm Activity: Crazy Coordinates

Tuesday

8:30—9:30 am Activity: Archaeology Sand Art 9:30—11:00 am Lecture: Geoarchaeology 11:00—11:30 pm Lunch 11:30—12:30 pm Lecture: The Dating Game 12:30—1:30 pm Activity: Dating methods exercises

Wednesday

8:30—9:30 Lecture: Ancient Engineering, Geometry, and Technol-ogy: Ancient Rome 9:30—10:15 Activity: Build a Roman Arch 10:15—11:00 Activity: Building the Pantheon

8:30—9:30 am Ancient Engineering, Geometry, and Technology: An-cient Mesoamerica 9:30—10:15 am Activity: Build a Mayan Temple 10:15—11:00 am Activity: Build the Temple of Inscriptions 11:00—11:30 Lunch 11:30—12:30 pm Lecture: Art and Archaeology 12:30—1:00 pm Activity: Analyzing Egyptian Art 1:00—1:30 pm Activity: Make a fresco

Thursday

Friday

8:30 am—10:00 pm Lecture: Archaeoastronomy 10:30—10:45 am Activity: Solar Alignments at Stonehenge 10:45—11:00 am Activity: Create a Sundial 11:00 am—11:30 pm Lunch 11:30—12:30 pm Lecture: Fossils, Tracks, and Megafauna 12:30—1:30 pm Activity: Create a fossil footprint

Wednesday Continued

11:00 am—11:30 pm Lunch 11:30—12:30 pm Lecture: Ancient Engineering, Geometry, and Technology: Ancient Egypt 12:30—1:00 pm Activity: Using simple machines 1:00—1:30 pm Activity: Build a pyramid