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Hello. My Name Is Julie Doucet and I'm an Archaeologist with the Louisiana Division of Archaeology. I'm Happy to Participate Hello. My name is Julie Doucet and I’m an archaeologist with the Louisiana Division of Archaeology. I’m happy to participate in this meeting of the Louisiana Association of Independent Schools, and thanks so much to Cathy Mills for inviting me to join her today. I’d like to share with you the educational resources available from the Louisiana Division of Archaeology to introduce archaeology into the classroom. 1 Why archaeology? Archaeology helps us learn about the past. Archaeology, and its parent field anthropology, are sciences that help us understand ourselves as humans and understand our place in this world. Part of being human is to be curious and inquisitive, which generates many questions. Archaeology is one way to find answers to some of these questions; questions like how did our world or our society get to be this way, and why do certain cultures behave the way they do. How do we learn about the past? Space science has given us a glimpse back in time to the birth of our universe, nearly 8 billion years ago. Geology helps us understand how our planet was formed, going back about 4.5 billion years ago. Paleontology focuses on the origin of life on Earth by studying the fossil remains of plants and animals. History and archaeology also study the past, with more of a focus on the human story. History deals mainly with the written record, while archaeology allows us to go further back in time, before writing. Archaeology helps us understand where, when, how and why people lived. It is the only field of study that covers all time periods and all geographical regions of our world. 2 The Louisiana Division of Archaeology can help introduce your students to this amazing field of study. We offer a variety of teaching aids, such as traveling exhibits, classroom presentations by a professional archaeologist, websites of well known Louisiana archaeology sites, and virtual books and activity books. An exciting project currently underway is archaeology teaching modules. These modules will be in PowerPoint and include activities and access to primary source information. 3 The Louisiana Division of Archaeology has a variety of archaeology educational resources that are available to you: traveling exhibits, websites, other online resources, classroom visits by an archaeologist, and soon archaeology teaching modules. 4 Our traveling exhibits include literature about the site as well audio/visual aids. The Poverty Point traveling exhibit includes a DVD and VHS, as well as transparencies to accommodate many levels of accessible technology in your classroom. Additionally, the accompanying literature in the exhibits include activities at age appropriate levels, and artifact cutouts with caption cards as well as question cards for the students. And, much to the delight of everyone, these traveling exhibits include artifacts that can be touched. Currently the Louisiana Division of Archaeology has traveling exhibits for two Louisiana archaeological sites: Poverty Point and the El Nuevo Constante. 5 Poverty Point is a prehistoric site located in northeast Louisiana near the town of Epps, which is about an hour or so from Monroe. Poverty Point is also the most recent site listed as a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) World Heritage Site. This is an amazing opportunity for the world to appreciate the richness of Louisiana’s archaeological history. During the period when Poverty Point was active, about 3,400 years ago, it had the largest earthworks in the Western Hemisphere. We have learned some incredible things from this site, and one of the most surprising things is that these massive earthworks were built by fisher‐hunter‐gatherers who had an egalitarian social structure. To archaeologists, the label of ‘egalitarian society’ implied that these people would not have built massive sites. This was based on the idea that this kind of effort would have to be coordinated by elites with enough power to persuade or coerce their people into such endeavors. And, hunter‐ gatherer societies were believed to be very mobile, not sedentary enough to contemplate such an undertaking. Poverty Point, and other prehistoric sites with large earthworks, prompted North American archaeologists to re‐think the widely held theory that only sedentary, agrarian, hierarchical societies are capable of such monumental architecture. We began to entertain the idea that egalitarian societies (i.e., hunter‐gatherers) could come together to construct large earthworks, and in fact were responsible for some of the largest earthworks known. The motivation for egalitarian societies to construct such monuments is still being debated, but most accept this type of undertaking as ceremonial in nature. 6 I could go on about this incredible site. However, I do want to share with you the educational resources we have to help get archaeology in the classroom. 6 Here is what the traveling exhibit for Poverty Point looks like. I brought the exhibit here so you can get a better look at the contents. To the left is a pump drill with a stone point attached. You could demonstrate the efficiency of this drilling technique by using it on a phone book, and drill a hole with relative ease using minimal pressure. To the right of the drill is an atlatl, or a spear thrower. This tool allowed Indians to hurtle spears farther and with more force, which meant that they didn’t have to get so close to large animals they were hunting. These two items are enclosed in a large plastic tube that accompanies the Poverty Point case you see here. Inside the case are a variety of materials, including literature, audio/visual aids, artifacts, and activities such as building a miniature hut. The Poverty Point Expeditions notebook is to the right of the case, and the binder below contains information on the exhibit, including transparencies. The envelopes contain cardboard cutouts of various artifacts, captions cards for the artifacts, and question cards for the students. You can pick up these exhibits on Tuesday between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm at the Division of Archaeology in Baton Rouge (1051 North Third Street, Room 319) and return it on Thursday of the next week. Or, you can receive the exhibit at your school via FedEx Ground and you can return it to Division of Archaeology (1051 North Third Street, Room 319, Baton Rouge, LA 70802) via FedEx Ground or UPS Ground. You would be responsible for the cost of return shipping, which is about $25. 7 If you choose to have it shipped it will leave out of our office on a Monday, arriving at your school the next day (Tuesday) around noon. It will need to ship back on Thursday of the following week via FedEx Ground or UPS Ground, so that it will arrive in Baton Rouge on the following day (Friday). This schedule gives you six school days to use the exhibit. To request the Exhibit, access the reservation form online at: http://www.crt.state.la.us/cultural-development/archaeology/teaching- materials/traveling-exhibits/poverty-point-traveling-exhibit/index. When you reserve the exhibit please provide three 2‐ week intervals, in order of preference. 7 In addition to the traveling exhibit for Poverty Point, we’ve just put out a new website with the most current archaeological information known about the site, including a newly discovered mound. This website is available at the address on the slide, or you can do an internet search for the Louisiana Division of Archaeology, and access ‘Discover Archaeology’ on the menu to the left. And, the information on this website can be saved as a pdf. The site is very interactive with pop up information on areas of the site that contain features, maps and artifacts. I invite you all to access it to see it for yourself http://www.crt.state.la.us/dataprojects/archaeology/povertypoint/index.html. There is a ‘Learn More’ section on the Poverty Point website where you can find out more information about the site. And the ‘Credits’ section provides all the information on who to credit and how to reference the information. All good sources if this was to be used as a research or writing assignment. Incidentally, this type of website is planned for several more Louisiana sites. I’ll give more information on that later in the presentation. 8 Here are Poverty Point resources that are available online if time gets away from you, or you simply don’t have the time in your class to devote to the contents of the traveling exhibit. The Poverty Point Expeditions notebook (http://www.crt.state.la.us/cultural- development/archaeology/teaching-materials/activity-guides/index) and the Poverty Point virtual book (http://www.crt.state.la.us/dataprojects/archaeology/virtualbooks/POVERPOI/Popo.h tm) are online at the Louisiana Division of Archaeology’s website. The Poverty Point World Heritage Initiative (http://www.crt.state.la.us/cultural- development/archaeology/poverty-point-world-heritage-initiative/index) has it’s own link on the menu, and walks you through the process of the nomination as a World Heritage Site. 9 El Nuevo Constante was an18th century Spanish merchant ship used to transport cargo to and from Mexico and Spain. In addition to cargo, crew and passengers, the Nuevo Constante was also equipped with military arms for protection. The cargo included gold, silver, and copper ingots (disks), gold coins, and a variety of rare items bound for the Old World. The ship also had cannons and various shots on board. This is an artists drawing of what the ship looked like, and includes a see through section where the cargo was stored. There is also a drawing of activities that may have taken place on deck.
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