This fun Web article is part of OLogy, where kids can collect virtual trading cards and create projects with them. Here, they learn about the ancient city of Petra. The article begins with an overview of this city, which was located along the ancient trade routes between Arabia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean Sea. Kids then have the chance to take a walk through Petra's ruins.

This OLogy reference list has six kid-friendly books on archeology. A short description is given for each title, along with author name and publisher. The list includes: illustrated looks at the world's great civilizations hands-on activities for kids that introduce them to the methods and tools archaeologists use a visual chronology of life on Earth that stretches from the ancient world to AD 1500.

This Web site, created to complement an American Museum of Natural History exhibition, reports on The New York Times Magazine's millennium time capsule project and offers insight into the concept of time.

This Web site, created to complement an AMNH exhibition, looks at a rare find from the fourth millennium BCE, which was discovered in 1993 near Jericho.

This OLogy activity gives kids a chance to test their investigation skills while learning about daily life for the Incas. Inca Investigation begins with an introduction to archaeologist Craig Morris and the ancient Inca city that his team excavated in the Andes mountains. Then kids are given detailed directions for how to play Inca Investigation, which includes tips to help them better examine evidence. At any time, they can get help, learn how to read a plan, or browse a book about Inca history. There are six sites for kids to select and examine. A plan view of the building, a written description of the place, and photos of artifacts that were found there are given for each. After examining the evidence, kids are presented with three possible answers to the question: So, what was this place? Each time they correctly identify a place, kids are awarded an Inca Chronicle. They have the option of reading the chronicles online or printing their collection of chronicles.

These OLogy stationery files give kids a fun way to communicate their archeology knowledge. Three ready-to-print letterheads are provided as downloadable PDFs.

This OLogy activity introduces kids to the investigative nature of archeology and the breadth of information archaeologists record in their field journals. AMNH archaeologist Christina Elson begins the activity with an overview of her work, saying that it is "a lot like being a detective." Lost in the Ruins briefly explains that not all objects can last for centuries. Kids are then given step-by-step directions for creating a field journal. They begin by closely examining and describing an everyday object. The activity includes two printable PDFs, a two-page blank field journal worksheet and an example of the same worksheet completed by Elson.

Meet the ArchaeOLogists is part of OLogy, where kids can collect virtual trading cards and create projects with them. Here, they meet four kids and one scientist who especially dig archeology.

This Web site, created to complement the Petra: Lost City of Stone exhibit, looks at this once flourishing city in the heart of the ancient Near East.

In this OLogy activity, kids learn why pottery is such a common and useful find during archaeological digs and then create their own pottery ruins. The activity begins with an overview that discusses the types of objects that are typically found during excavations, why pottery is a common discovery, and its various uses throughout history. Students are then given step-by-step illustrated directions for decorating a flowerpot, turning it into ruins, and then piecing it back together. The activity includes a printable PDF that has stencils of different design motifs.

Welcome to the Remixing Çatalhöyük Project! Çatalhöyük is a Neolithic settlement mound, enclosing the remains of a honeycomb of mud brick buildings, built side by side and one on top of the other for a thousand years, starting around 9000 years ago. This project focuses on the excavation conducted by the Berkeley Archaeologists at Çatalhöyük (BACH) team. From 1997 to 2003, the BACH team focused their attention on excavating the life-history of a single building-- termed Building 3-- and three separate small cells adjoining it. The Remixing Çatalhöyük Project is composed of three parts: a website, four themed-collections, and a raw research archive. One of the theme collections, Life Histories, contains a K-12 activity. To view this project, please see: http://okapi.berkeley.edu/remixing.

Archeology at Different Scales is one of four themed-collections from the Remixing Çatalhöyük project. This collection asks the following: How do archaeologists weave far-reaching events with details of everyday life to create a rich approach to history? How and why do archaeologists study Çatalhöyük at many different scales? How can archaeologists use “multi-scalar data” to create comprehensive descriptions of place?For more information about the Remixing Çatalhöyük project, please see: okapi.berkeley.edu/remixing. For more information about the Archaeology at Different Scales collection, please see: okapi.berkeley.edu/res/sites/scales.

Senses of Place is one of four themed-collections from the Remixing Çatalhöyük project. This collection asks the following: How do archaeologists build on their discoveries
to imagine the sights and sounds of the past?

How do archaeologists represent Çatalhöyük, both as it is today and as it once was?

What media and methods can archaeologists use to communicate a sense of place to others?
For more information about the Remixing Çatalhöyük project, please see: okapi.berkeley.edu/remixing. For more information about the Senses of Place collection, please see: okapi.berkeley.edu/res/sites/senses.

This Web site, created to complement an American Museum of Natural History exhibition, offers insight into how Vodou reflects the history of Haiti's people, whose ancestors were brought from Africa to the Caribbean in bondage.

This Web site, created to complement the Museum's Totems to Turquoise exhibit, looks at native North American jewelry arts of the Northwest and Southwest.

This article is part of OLogy, where kids can collect virtual trading cards and create projects with them. Here, they learn more about the Zapotec people of ancient Mexico.

This Web site, created to complement an American Museum of Natural History exhibition, paints a well-rounded picture of Viking life.

Çatalhöyük is a Neolithic settlement mound, enclosing the remains of a honeycomb of mud brick buildings, built side by side and one on top of the other for a thousand years, starting around 9000 years ago. Then, as today, there is no proto-typical, individual household, or house. Avoiding such generalizations, the Berkeley Archaeologists at Çatalhöyük (BACH) learn as much as possible about individual residents or particular artifacts and use this knowledge to create rich, multivocal and multi-scalar descriptions and histories of place. From 1997 to 2003, the BACH team focused their attention on excavating the life-history of a single building and three separate small cells adjoining it. Termed Building 3, this 400 square foot mud brick structure was likely home to several generations of a Neolithic family. Excavations of Building 3 revealed painted walls, a collapsed roof, burials beneath the floor, and many structural modifications providing intriguing clues clues to its life and that of its occupants. A magnificent flint dagger with a carved bone handle was found in one of the adjacent cells. The BACH team invites you to explore the data and use your imagination to create your own story of life in this household 9000 years ago. To view the project's website, please see: http://okapi.berkeley.edu/remixing.

This OLogy activity tests kids' knowledge about excavation strategies, the tools archaeologists use, and more with an interactive quiz. The 10-question multiple-choice test covers a wide range of topics, from "Why do archaeologists create a map of the site before they dig?" to "Archaeologists look for different soil layers that they identify by color and texture. If the layers haven't been disturbed, what can they tell us?" After making their 10 selections, kids can check their answers with a page that shows them how they did on each question and offers an explanation of the right answers.