Early+Humans



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Below is the video that we watched in class a few times. It is called "Mesopotamia: From Nomads to Farmers" and it is about a young Mesopotamian girl who writes a journal about life in her city-state. Important concepts are technological advances (like the plow), religion (they mention ziggurats) and even how to become a scribe (and learn cuneiform!) media type="youtube" key="Ki8S5I83Ccc" height="315" width="420"

Time to be an **archaeologist!** In class we did a lot of work with artifacts - making observations (remember they always need a sentence starter) and inferences (what do you think the artifact was used for?). The website below allows you to be an archaeologist and dig for artifacts from Mesopotamia, present day Iraq. After digging them up, you can write observations for them.