Archaeological Investigations of an Iron Age Site and of Early California...

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Field Trip Programs

Riverside - CA Riv 003eh - California Site
Riverside - CA Riv 0004e -The Iron Age Site
Both at At La Sierra University, Riverside.

Come; step into our excavation pits and into the past and exam artifacts that are thousands of years old. La Sierra University has archaeological mysteries to solve. Select one of our two excavation sites...

CA Riv 003eh - California Site...

The California Site (CA Riv 003he) has two occupation levels. One represents the First Californians with real and reproduction stone artifacts. The other has real artifacts from historic California from 100 years ago.

CA Riv 0004e -The Iron Age Site...

The Iron Site (CA Riv 004e) is based on 3000 year old iron making sites in the Middle East. The site contains reproduction artifacts and real 3000 year old artifacts, excavated by La Sierra University archaeologists and courtesy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Our Junior Archaeology Field School is a four hour field trip where elementary, middle and high school students learn about what archeologists do in the “field.”

When your class arrives they spend an hour-and-a-half leaning how archaeologists learn about the past. They learn the difference between observation and inference, the importance of context and about forming a hypothesis.

Then they spend an hour or more excavating in one of our mock archaeological sites.

After the excavation they analyze what they've found and build a hypothesis about what people where doing.

Resources..

La Sierra University Home Page
http://www.lasierra.edu/index.php

The Future Museum at La Sierra University
http://www.lasierra.edu/news/2006/feb/arch_museum.html

Teachers...

Qualified folk guide your students through their on-site archaeology adventure. The students use the standard tools and methodology of archaeology. They notate and map their progress and finds. Everyone is wonderfully dirty.

Back at school, you guide your class through the process of combining the datum they've gathered to create an archaeological site report.

Finally, using their site reports and memories, students then record and catalog their finds and selected items and features which are added to our site reports. -- this allows everyone to keep up with the current status and new discoveries at the site!

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