Experimental Archaeology: Making Cordage

Students become experimental archaeologists using three methods of pottery making before the invention of the pottery wheel.

Learners participate in an inkblot test to discuss how what they see is different than their classmates. After viewing various artifacts, they write down what they believe the object is and then they are placed into a group to discuss...

Students make a cordage and use an activity sheet to experience a skill that ancient Native American in North Carolina neded for everyday life.

Students make and decorate a replica of a North Carolina coiled pot after summarizing why archaeologists study pottery and how Indian people of North Carolina made and used coiled pottery.

Students act as archaeologist and mend broken pottery to see what they can learn.