Thinking like an archeologist

Learning Goal: FH 6-8 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

Archeologists look for artifacts and primary resources to put together a secondary

account explaining what happen. Today you will do the same!

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrzuCtq0S1U

Vocabulary:

Archeologist: People who study the past and examine artifacts

Artifacts: things a person can pick up and hold from the past

Primary Resource: Documents/Pictures from people who were there

Secondary Resource: Documents/Pictures based on evidence from primary resource

What civilization is this from? What do you think it is?

What civilization is this from? What do you think it is?

What civilization is this from? What do you think it is?

What civilization is this from? What do you think it is?

• This object was found in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Translated to EnglishCRIME PunishmentAdultery deathCommoner found wearing cotton clothes

death

Cutting down a living tree deathHandling stolen property Sold into slaverykidnapping Sold into slaverySelling substandard goods Loss of propertyMajor theft deathMinor theft Sold into slaveryTreason Death, loss of property, destruction of

land, children sold into slaverydrunkeness 1st offense-head shaved, house

destroyed2nd offense-death

What civilization is this from? What do you think it is?

What civilization is this from?

What do you think

it is?

What civilization is this from? What do you think it is?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_YjSbp5KHM