Topic - Thursday 15/10/20

L.O. Can I recognise the part that archaeologists have had in helping us understand more about what happened in the past and study objects from the past to find out about people and places?

STICKY KNOWLEDGE
​List some differences between Manchester and Lytham St Annes.

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What was life like in the Stone Age?  This is the enquiry question we have been working on this half-term.  What  did you learn?  What do you remember?  Comment on the post.

Archaeologists
Archaeologists  study the past.  They look at remains people leave behind in the ground to discover how they lived.

Archaeologists are like detectives: they observe facts to discover clues about the person who once owned it.  By piecing together the clues, archaeologists can answer questions about how past civilisations lived.

​Watch the video below.

What does an archaeologist need to do their job?  Look at the picture below and consider what each item would be used for.

Watch the video below.

Flint was used for all sorts of different purposes because it was hard and sharp.  When an archaeologist examines flint artefacts, they can tell which task each flint was used for, even though they are all made from the same material.  

When a site is excavated, a team of archaeologists work out what each object was for so they can understand what people in the past were doing.

Now it's your turn!  You're going to be archaeologists and you need to look at the flint sorting activity and see if you can figure out what each piece of the flint was used for.

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