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| Archgis and GIS: Learn about the innovative area of GIS and how this technology is becoming an essential tool in archaeology. (http://museums.ua.edu/oar/archgis.shtml). What is GIS? What can GIS do? How does GIS work? What can archaeologists do with information derived using GIS? At the Tomb of Tutankhamen: Experience the opening of the famous site with a National Geographic correspondent in 1923. (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egypt/index.html) What was the setting like where the tomb was being opened? Who was present at the time the tomb was opened? What was found inside the tomb? Where else did the reporter visit? Dating Exhibit: Find out how archaeologists learn the age of the items they find through excavation. (http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/dating/) What is the difference between relative and absolute dating? How does seriation dating work? How does fluorine dating work? How does radio-carbon dating work? How does thermoluminescence dating work? |