Requirements:

Brownie Girl Scouts: Complete starred requirements only.
Junior Girl Scouts: Complete starred requirements plus two additional requirements.
Cadette/Senior Girl Scouts: Complete starred requirements plus four additional requirements.

* 1. Find out what Archeology is and how it is related to Anthropology. Learn the definitions for culture, site, feature and provenience.

* 2. Attend an Archeology field, visit a museum or participate in a simulated dig in your community to learn more about the subject under the direction of an archeologist or technician.

* 3. Learn about the techniques and tools used to do the kind of work in which you are participating.

* 4. Learn what artifacts are and how to identify them. Learn how artifacts are preserved and why.

5. Learn the correct format and style to be used when reporting an archeology project. Keep a log of your daily activities or a journal detailing your work.

OR

Photograph or draw interesting features of your day.

6. Learn about the culture of the people you are studying:
a. Their environment and how it affected their lifestyle.
b. What their homes were like.
c. How and where they got their food.
d. Ceremonies and special events they might have had.
e. Jobs the children might have had.
f. What they made (clothes, utensils, tools, arts & crafts.)

7. Recreate a past utensil, craft, tool, or leisure pastime of the people who lived at your site.

8. Learn about or visit a site that is a national landmark or a national register site. Find out why it was nominated.

9. Compare two sites: one historic and one prehistoric. How are they similar? How are they different?

10. Learn about the laws pertaining to archeology.

11. Interview an archeologist and find out what education she/he needs and what types of work she/he does.
 

Learning More Links:
(Year Strips) Complete two additional requirements per year.

1. How does an archeologist find sites? Learn about cultural resources surveys and inventories. What kind are there and how do they differ? How are they done? How are sites identified?

2. Learn about how to clean artifacts. Learn why a particular cleaning process is used. What happens to artifacts and documentation records after they are catalogued?

3. Visit another archeological site or museum in your community. Are the people the same? Older? Younger? What did they do?

4. Do methods of classification differ by material? Learn about methods and bones, pollen and plant remains, pottery and stone tools. What information do these methods and techniques of analysis give us about the adaptations of past human cultures and the behavior of the members of these cultures.

5. Understand how the natural and social environments surrounding your site may have influenced the people living there.

6. Learn about how and why sites are stabilized and interpreted for the general public. Visit a stabilized site which is open to and interpreted for the public. Why was this done? How is information about the site and archeology shared with the public? What should you do about vandalism? What is the Site Steward Program?

7. Learn more about the parts of an archeological record; plant remains; site boundaries; animal bone; datable material, and human remains. What kinds of sites, features, and artifacts are found in your area? How do they reflect past human behavior and use of the environment?
 
 
 

Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest
Arizona Archaeological Council
Arizona Archaeological Society
Arizona Association for Learning In and About the Environment
Arizona State University Anthropology Museum and Department
Arizona Western College
Bureau of Land Management in Yuma
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Casa Malpais (Springerville)
Eldon Pueblo
Heard Museum
Homolovi Ruins State Park
Lyman Lake State Park
Mesa Community College
Mesa Grande
Mesa Southwest Museum
Museum of Northern Arizona
Museum of the Forest (Payson)
Northern Arizona University Department of Anthropology
Park of the Canals
Pueblo Grande Museum
Shoofly Village Ruin
State Historic Preservation Office
Tonto National Forest
White Mountain Archaeological Center
Wupatki