Workshop offered for Kentucky K-12 teachers interested in archaeology curriculum
Project Archaeology, a national education program, will offer a free in-person workshop for K-12 teachers in Huntsville, Ala on June 12-15.
Uncovering Kentucky history: Ancient American Indian textiles
This article highlights aspects of Kentucky’s deep – and not so deep – past as revealed by uncommon and often overlooked documents, archaeological sites and the artifacts they hold.
Dig it
Students in schools across Kentucky are using buttons to learn about sorting, color, shapes and classification, all while drawing inferences about the objects’ owner. Teachers are using original source documents to produce informed citizens, voters and leaders. All are happening because of archaeology, a word not even found in the Program of Studies, according to A. Gwynn Henderson, archaeologist and education coordinator with the Kentucky Archaeological Survey (KAS), jointly administered by the Kentucky Heritage Council and the University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology.