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- Field trips in context
- Opportunities abound in North Carolina for hands-on interdisciplinary learning experiences.
- Format: article
- By Lesley Richardson.
- Shadows of North Carolina's past
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.2
- Students will infer past Native American lifeways based on observation, construct a timeline of four major culture periods in Native American history, and compare these lifeways and discuss how they are different and alike.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- Language families
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.7
- Students will identify and locate the three language families of contact period North Carolina and calculate the physical area covered by each language family.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Mathematics and Social Studies)
- The village farmers
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.5
- North Carolina sat on a crossroads by AD 1000. Cultural ideas from other places breezed through it and around it: how to decorate pottery, how to orient political and social life, how to honor the dead, how to structure towns.
- Shadows of a people
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.3
- Archaeologists divide North Carolina's prehistory -- the time before contact with Europeans -- into four periods: Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian.
- Format: article
- Excavation block
- An exavation block at Occaneechi Town with plowed soil removed. The dark stains are archaeological features.
- Format: image/photograph
- Occaneechi excavation tasks
- Photograph of students engaged in various excavation tasks at Occaneechi Town.
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- Establishing the site grid
- Photograph of students using a transit to establish a grid line at Occaneechi Town.
- Format: image/photograph
- Occaneechi Town excavation grid
- Illustration of a portion of the Occaneechi Town excavation grid. (North is at the top of the map.)
- Format: image/illustration
- Removing plowed soil
- Photograph of students excavating and sifting plowed soil at Occaneechi Town.
- Format: image/photograph
- Troweling the subsoil at Occaneechi Town
- Photograph of students troweling a large excavated area at Occaneechi Town.
- Format: image/photograph
- Ancient post holes
- Photograph of students revealing ancient post holes by troweling the top of subsoil.
- Format: image/photograph
- Ancient pits
- Photograph of students revealing ancient pits by troweling the top of subsoil.
- Format: image/photograph
- Excavating an ancient pit
- Photograph of a student excavating the contents from an ancient pit.
- Format: image/photograph
- Ancient pit contents
- Ancient refuse at the bottom of a pit.
- Format: image/photograph
- What ancient pit contents tell us
- A closer view of ancient refuse at the bottom of a pit.
- Format: image/photograph
- Excavated features — before excavation
- A photograph and map of an unexcavated archaeological feature at Occaneechi Town.
- Format: image/photograph
- Excavated features — during excavation
- A photograph and map of an unexcavated archaeological feature at Occaneechi Town.
- Format: image/photograph
- Excavated features — after excavation
- A photograph and drawing of the feature after excavation has been completed.
- Format: image/photograph
- Pits
- Photograph of a pit, a common archaeological feature found at Occaneechi Town. Pits are roughly circular, moderately deep holes that were dug by the town's inhabitants. Most probably they were used to hide or conceal belongings and were subsequently filled...
- Format: image/photograph
