ARCHAEOLOGY
5 UNIT CURRICULUM
UNIT 1: The Science of Archaeology
A. Introduction to Archaeology
a. What is archaeology?
b. What is an artifact?
i. Artifact ID Practice: Smithsonian Lesson 1
ii. Article from Archaeology Magazine: Sept/Oct 2011
c. Archaeology overview
i. PP reading: Fields, Steps to a dig, Tell (in groups)
ii. Homework: Reading: Digging up What’s Down
iii. Interpretation and creation of a Tell
d. Quiz
B. The Logical Progression of Archaeological Investigation
a. Surface surveys and Aerial photography
i. Reading: Surface Surveys
ii. Students go into field and conduct a surface survey
iii. Reading: Aerial Photography
iv. PP slides of aerial photographs and practice interpretation
b. The importance of the Grid at sites
i. Paper Gridding: Piedmont Site
ii. Field gridding outside
c. Excavation Strategies
i. Reading:
1. Rural vs urban sites
2. Types of Trenches
3. Soil types
d. Dating Techniques
i. Relative Dating Reading
1. Relative Dating Truths
2. Sequence Dating/Cross Dating
a. Worksheet
3. Absolute Dating Reading
a. Types of Absolute Dating
b. Hands on practice with Dendro-chronology
c. C14 Dating
e. Mini Dig: In classroom using sandbox
a. Sandbox digging: Using proper dig techniques
b. Case Study Dating Techniques: Mystery of Molly
c. Case Study: Artifact Interpretation
4. Test: Science of Archaeology
e. The First Civilization
i. Primitive Humans
1. PP slides and Table
2. Fill in Map of their locations
ii. Agricultural Revolution/First Civilizations
1. PP Slides
2. Worksheet: 7 innovations in agriculture
3. Effect Frame: Agriculture
4. Reading: Catal Huyuk and Jericho
a. Why Different?
UNIT 2: The Ancient Middle East
A.
Sumerians
a. Ancient Middle East Map
b. Geography and Rise of Sumerian City-States
c. Sumerian Geography: PP and questions (HW)
d. Sumerian Civilization Worksheet
e. Sumerian Archaeology PP/Worksheet
f. Spotlight on Sir Leonard Woolley/Worksheet
g. Sumerian Artifact recognition worksheet
h. Sumerian literature: Gilgamesh Epic
1. Selected reading of Gilgamesh
2. Analysis of issues in reading: connection to today
i. Sumerian City-States
1. Sumerian City planning worksheet
2. Student created: Ideal City-State
Quiz: Sumerians
B. Amorites
a. Amorite background and culture
b. Worksheet: Amorites as Empire builders
c. Hammurabi Code: Introduction: Reading and questions
d. Hammurabi Code court case group interpretation
C. Assyrians
a. Map of Assyria: review orally in class: Goal: know where Assyria was
located and some of the important places by it
b. Cultural study if Assyrians/culture cards
c. Assyrian Military and Legacy/Questions
D. Chaldeans/Persians
a. PP with questions and a table
b. Artifact Study:
1. Hanging Gardens Proof
2. Behistun Inscription
UNIT 3: Ancient Egypt
A. Geography
a. Geography Study with questions and map
b. Egypt Map of Old Kingdom
c. PP: Geography and early history
B. Artifact Study: Narmer Palette
a. Palette interpretation (without help) two sided graphic
b. Handout of Palette with interpretation
c. Brief notes handout on Narmer
**Common Assessment: Egypt Geography and Narmer
C. Old Kingdom Pharaohs
a. Old Kingdom Pharaoh reading/worksheet
b. Old Kingdom PP
D. Pharaonic Symbols of Power
a. Regalia worksheet
b. Slide presentation recognition
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**Test: Geography. Narmer, Old Kingdom Symbols of Power
E. Pyramids
a. Pyramid Evolution Chronology Worksheet
b. Pyramid Project
i. Library time
ii. Group project
iii. PP presentation to class
c. Pyramid Construction Theories Reading/Worksheet
**Pyramid Quiz
F. Sphinx
a. Sphinx Station Learning/worksheet
G. 1st Intermediate Period/Middle Kingdom
a. Reading Comprehension Task/Questions
b. Table interpretation on Egypt Climate: What effect does climate have
on civilizations?
c. Literature from the Middle Kingdom
H. 2nd Intermediate Period
a. Comparing sources: 3 articles on Hyksos/questions
b. How Joseph story from Genesis can help shed light on Hyksos
c. Evaluating Primary sources:
i. Kamose inscription
ii. Expulsion of Hyksos burial text
d. Reading: War of Liberation against the Hyksos/questions
**Quiz: Intermediate Periods and Middle Kingdom
I. New Kingdom
a. New Kingdom Pharaohs: PP/questions
b. Conquests of Thutmose III Reading/questions
i. Video on Thutmose III
c. Egyptian Art under Akhenaten PP/worksheet
i. PP art recognition
ii. Amarna Letters
iii. Akhetaten map study, interpretation
d. Burial Practices
a. Group project/presentation on burial practices of the world
b. reading: Egyptian Funerary practices/questions
c. Students create Poster of Egyptian Burial Process
d. Compare modern and Egpytian burial practices
e. Egyptian Judgment of the dead Flow Chart worksheet/PP slides
**Quiz: Egyptian Burial Process
J. Tut Burial
a. New Kingdom tomb architecture worksheet/ drawings
b. Valley of Kings Web Quest
c. Howard Carter Journal entries of finding the Tomb
d. Tut Tomb PP/questions/drawing of tomb shape
e. Rethinking Tut: 3 articles
**Quiz: Tut
UNIT 4: Ancient Greece
A. Geography
a. Map of Aegean/label/questions
b. Greek Geography Webquest
c. Synthesis questions
**Quiz: Greek Geography
B. Minoans
a. Geography/culture webquest: homework
b. Key Term: Bronze Age
c. Minoan Art/PP/Student descriptions
d. Minoan Art PP/practice
C. Myenaeans
a. Mycenae PP Study
b. Reading: 96-100/questions
c. Mycenaean burials PP/worksheet
d. Artifact Study: Mask of Agamemnon: Real or Forgery
e. Minoan/Mycenaean artifact comparison Study
**Quiz: Minoan Art, Mycenae and Mycenaean Burials
D. Bronze Age Warfare
a. Writing Task: Picture Prompt of Warrior Vase
b. Bronze Age Warfare: Methods, Arms, Chariots
**Quiz: Bronze Age Warfare
E. Trojan War
a. Troy Packet
i. Iliad passages and characters
ii. Heinrich Schliemann
iii. Site of Troy Reading
b. PP on Site of Troy/questions
c. Articles on Trojan War Authenticity
d. Reading excerpts on Iliad themes
**Test: Trojan War
F. Geometric Period
a. Geometric Pottery
i. PP/recognition worksheet
b. Olympics
i. PP/questions/map
**Quiz: Geometric Pottery/Olympics
G. Archaic Period
a. Orientalizing Pottery/PP/questions
b. Orientalizing Reading/questions
c. Archaic Sculpture PP/questions
d. Black and Red Figure Vase Painting
e. Cross Curriculum project: Black/Red Figure Pottery Production
Essay: How pottery changed from Geometric period to Red Figure Vases
H. Persian Wars
a. Persian Wars Sources: HW
b. Persian Wars Background Webquest
c. Class Notes: Persian War leadership
d. Structure of Ancient Ships, Tactics, Trireme: HW
e. Greek/Persian Arms and Armor
f. Score Chart: Who Should Win This War?
f. Important Battles: Table
**Test: Persian Wars
I. Classical Period
a. Evolution of Greek Temple: readings and drawings
b. Classical architecture vocabulary
c. Classical Architecture PP/drawings
d. Classical Motifs in Nutley: Town walk and worksheet
e. Classical Art: PP/worksheet
**Quiz: Classical Architecture
**Quiz: Classical Art
UNIT 5: Ancient Rome