October Is Archaeology Month

 

Webinar Series

The Yellowstone Gateway Museum is offering an eight-week online series on Montana's Native People: Perspectives on the Clovis Child. Each week, beginning Tuesday, October 13, at 1:30 p.m., a different webinar will explore the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, geneticists and other professionals who have helped us better understand the Anzick Site, where a the "Clovis child" was buried approximately 12,600 years ago. There will be an interactive online career discussion following each 30-45 minute presentation. The Yellowstone Gateway Museum will also be making the presentations available on YouTube.

 

A great resource to accompany these presentations (or to use independently) is Investigating the First Peoples: The Clovis Child Burial. 

 

Archaeology Day Resources from MHS

For years we've hosted an annual Archaeology Day for Helena-area fourth through sixth graders. That's not possible this year, so my colleague Deb Mitchell has pulled together resources you can use in your classroom (or online) to create your own archaeology day (or month) units.

 

On a Completely Different Note

I hope to see you virtually either at the MFPE Virtual Educators Conference, where I'll be giving the MCSS Keynote, "Who Is History," or at our upcoming October 20, 4:00-5:00 p.m., online professional development, "Primary Sources for Teaching Montana History."