PPT-Chapter 1, Lesson 3, How Archaeologists Study the Past

Chapter 1 Lesson 3 Slide 1 How do archaeologists uncover the stories of early people They search for and study artifacts and fossils Unlike other scientists archaeologists often sift through the dirt in a small plot of land. Culture Historians use a variety of methods to help them answer questions about what happened in the past Culture Historians examine evidence and draw conclusions as they answer historical questions Understanding the Past ESSENTIAL QUESTION What que Science and Technology Archaeologists have found evidence that tells us a great deal about early humans Culture Human culture developed during the prehistoric period known as the Stone Age Finding Clues to the Past ESSENTIAL QUESTION How do archaeol Races. to the . Top in Florida. A Report on Lesson . Study . Initiatives In The Sunshine State. C. ollaborate • . P. lan • . A. lign • . L. earn • . M. otivate • . S. hare. A Brief History of Lesson Study in Florida. What You Will Learn…. In this chapter you will learn how historians study the ancient world to unlock the mysteries of the past. In this photo a diver examines an ancient jar off the coast of Israel.. From . Lesson Study Step by Step: How Teacher Learning Communities Improve Instruction . By Catherine C. Lewis and Jacqueline . Hurd. Agenda. BRIEF Review . Purpose. Lesson Study Cycle – Where we Are Now?. The Basics. Adapted from the Texas Historical Commission’s document . How Archaeologists Work. What is archaeology?. The study of people from the past through artifacts. Archaeologists study pre-history or the time before written history. Attention span- . the length of time a person can concentrate on one thing. Cooperative play- . playing together with one or two children and sharing toys. Group play- . play with several children, especially those their own age. Our Journey!. Understanding . the human past is essential for understanding the present and shaping the future.. Learning about cultures, past and present, is essential for living in a diverse society and world.. Chapter 4 Lesson I. The one with the greater mass, because KE=1/2 mv. 2. Question 1. Two books with different masses fall off the same bookshelf. As they fall which has more kinetic energy and why?. Where does our information come from?. Archaeological evidence. Remains of people & animals. Artifacts (human-made objects). Oral history (history that is passed on without being written down). Primary documents. Popular culture is rife with movies, books, and television shows that address our collective curiosity about what the world was like long ago. From historical dramas to science fiction tales of time travel, audiences love stories that reimagine the world before our time. But what if there were a field that, through the advancements in technology, could bring us closer to the past than ever before?   Written by a preeminent expert in geospatial archaeology, Maps for Time Travelers is a guide to how technology is revolutionizing the way archaeologists study and reconstruct humanity’s distant past. From satellite imagery to 3D modeling, today archaeologists are answering questions about human history that could previously only be imagined. As archaeologists create a better and more complete picture of the past, they sometimes find that truth is stranger than fiction.   In Unlocking the Past, Martin Jones, a leading expert at the forefront of bioarchaeology—the discipline that gave Michael Crichton the premise for Jurassic Park—explains how this pioneering science is rewriting human history and unlocking stories of the past that could never have been told before. For the first time, the building blocks of ancient life—DNA, proteins, and fats that have long been trapped in fossils and earth and rock—have become widely accessible to science. Working at the cutting edge of genetic and other molecular technologies, researchers have been probing the remains of these ancient biomolecules in human skeletons, sediments and fossilized plants, dinosaur bones, and insects trapped in amber. Their amazing discoveries have influenced the archaeological debate at almost every level and continue to reshape our understanding of the past.Devising a molecular clock from a certain area of DNA, scientists were able to determine that all humans descend from one common female ancestor, dubbed “The Mitochondrial Eve,” who lived around 150,000 years ago. Employing different techniques on other molecules recovered from grinding stones and potsherds, they have been able to reconstruct ancient diets and posit when such practices as dairying and boiling water for cooking began. They have reconstituted the beer left in the burial chamber of pharaohs and know what the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter found in the Alps in the early nineties, ate before his last journey. Conveying both the excitement of innovative research and the sometimes bruising rough-and-tumble of scientific debate, Jones has written a work of profound importance. Unlocking the Past is science at its most engaging. Popular culture is rife with movies, books, and television shows that address our collective curiosity about what the world was like long ago. From historical dramas to science fiction tales of time travel, audiences love stories that reimagine the world before our time. But what if there were a field that, through the advancements in technology, could bring us closer to the past than ever before?   Written by a preeminent expert in geospatial archaeology, Maps for Time Travelers is a guide to how technology is revolutionizing the way archaeologists study and reconstruct humanity’s distant past. From satellite imagery to 3D modeling, today archaeologists are answering questions about human history that could previously only be imagined. As archaeologists create a better and more complete picture of the past, they sometimes find that truth is stranger than fiction.   Popular culture is rife with movies, books, and television shows that address our collective curiosity about what the world was like long ago. From historical dramas to science fiction tales of time travel, audiences love stories that reimagine the world before our time. But what if there were a field that, through the advancements in technology, could bring us closer to the past than ever before?   Written by a preeminent expert in geospatial archaeology, Maps for Time Travelers is a guide to how technology is revolutionizing the way archaeologists study and reconstruct humanity’s distant past. From satellite imagery to 3D modeling, today archaeologists are answering questions about human history that could previously only be imagined. As archaeologists create a better and more complete picture of the past, they sometimes find that truth is stranger than fiction.