homework from yesterday…

Homework from yesterday…

Our First PPT together…

Let It Rock Dunker…

I love Anc Civ!

(Short) POWER POINT TUESDAY!

1st INTERACTIVE PPT

• Fred

• Wesley

• Norm

UNIT OVERVIEW

INTRO TO EARLY CIVS

I’m jumping up

in a fit of joy…

Word!

Me too! Dunker’s ppts are sweet!

HistoryWhen civs started writing stuff down

5,000 yrs ago

vs.

PrehistoryBefore written records

Peeps who study Civs…

AnthropologistStudy skeletal remains

“Anthro Bones”

ArchaeologistStudy artifacts & excavate ancient

settlementsCheck out this sweet

find! Perhaps it

will help me get a

girlfriend!

FRED

Wesley

I just love digging in old skulls…don’t you?!?!

How we can tell the

age of artifacts…

Ok, Ok, I’m with you so far. But I’m still

wondering, how can they tell how

old something is?

Norm

1. Radio-Carbon dating

Everything has Carbon atoms

When something dies, carbon

decays

Measures up to 50,000 yrs ago

2. Stratiography

Measures how old the earth is where the artifact is found

The 1st Humans• Low Forehead

• Heavy Eyebrow Ridge

• Receding Chin

• Powerful Jaws

WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY

LOOKED LIKE?!?

HOMEWORK:

Piltdown Man Hoax Questions