Getting Dirty for Dig Day at Cheney Middle School
Students at Cheney Middle School got down and dirty, sparking an early interest in archaeology.
The NDSU anthropology department helped with the simulated dig, where students mapped, excavated and even screened.
All of these things are normal activities on an excavation.
The goal is to spark an interest in archaeology earlier than usual.
“But we’re actually really interested in humans, and humans and the past so getting younger students exposed to what we do and how we do it is our primary goal because it’s not something that they’re encountering on a day to day basis,” says NDSU Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Kristen Fellows.
Instructors hope to show archaeology isn’t just digging.
They say archaeology is learning history in a different way by taking notes and making interpretations.
