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Climate Change and Archaeology: Erosion
By Katherine Hodge, Public Education Coordinator It is easy to forget that land is in the minority on our planet. The ocean covers 70% of Earth, and the remaining 30% is not all habitable thanks to impassable mountain ranges, scorching deserts, or icy shelves. With so...
We’re Having Mashed Potatoes
By Katherine Hodge, Public Education Coordinator This year has brought many changes to everyday life. Unfortunately, upcoming holidays like Thanksgiving will also look very different for most Americas. 2020 has been difficult for many, and though Thanksgiving is often...
Climate Change and Archaeology: The Ice is Melting
By Katherine Hodge, Public Education CoordinatorArchaeology is a unique profession for many reasons. One of those reasons is how many environments it can take place in, from deserts to the ocean floor to the rainforest to inside a glacier. If there is a will, there is...
Pandemics of the Past: Tuberculosis
By Katherine Hodge, Public Education Coordinator Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is an infectious bacterium that has been around for millions of years. Though scientists and archaeologists speculate that it has been capable of infecting humans since approximately...
Witch is it: Trick or Trowel
By Katherine Hodge, Public Education CoordinatorHalloween may seem like a silly American holiday, but it has ancient origins. Halloween is not American; it originated in Europe. Celtic people created this holiday around 2000 years ago and celebrated by wearing...
Pandemics of the Past: Smallpox
By Katherine Hodge, Public Education CoordinatorSmallpox is perhaps the most well-known plague in human history. Scientists and historians believe that the virus has been around for as long as 10,000 years and originally developed from human contact with animals. Like...
Pandemics of the Past: Leprosy
By Katherine Hodge, Public Education CoordinatorMycobacterium leprae Leprosy is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae. Before modern medicine, this disease was incurable, but now there are antibiotics that can successfully treat this illness. Scientist Gerhard...
Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
By Katherine Hodge, Public Education CoordinatorViral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) sounds like one of those things you just never want to get. Unlike the other pandemics and sicknesses that we have covered and plan on covering in this series, VHF is not one single sickness...
The Bubonic Plague
By Katherine Hodge, Public Education CoordinatorI’ve covered a lot of ground with y’all in 2020. Together, we’ve learned about how things like sailing or alcohol happened, redefining what shelter means, the history and intricacies of wildfires and archaeology, and...
Investigating a Wintu Roundhouse: Thinking About Today
Adapted from Nichole Tramel's text in Investigating a Wintu Roundhouse One of the most critical parts of a Project Archaeology curriculum is having students connect what they’ve learned to modern-day times and issues. With Investigating a Wintu Roundhouse, there is no...
Investigating a Wintu Roundhouse: A Free Lesson!
By Katherine Hodge, Public Education CoordinatorToday we are giving you a sneak peek of Investigating a Wintu Roundhouse in the form of a free lesson! To recap about our exciting new curriculum: Investigating a Wintu Roundhouse is a regional investigation from our...
Investigating a Wintu Roundhouse– Meet Ms. Elaine Sundahl
Adapted from Ms. Sundahl's text in Investigating a Wintu Roundhouse Today we’d like to introduce you to Ms. Sundahl, the archaeologist featured in Investigating a Wintu Roundhouse. She is an archaeologist who focuses on the archaeology of California. She excavated the...
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