Celebrate International Archaeology Day with an underground exploration into Fairfield's Town Green just adjacent to the Fairfield Museum and History Center. Explore artifacts, try out a trowel and a metal detector, and learn how to uncover the layers of mysterious history beneath our feet.
Join National Park Service staff to explore the history and archaeology of the Abiel Smith School in Boston. The Smith School opened in 1835 and educated the city's African American students until 1855. The students and teachers did not leave many written records behind, but they did leave their trash! Come learn about the artifacts […]
Celebrate International Archaeology Day with Plimoth Plantation. Paint a reproduction tile to take home and see pictures of the real tiles in our collection. Throughout the day there will be a variety of archaeology-related children's activities including hands-on challenges, coloring, and crafts.
Join us for an open house and Q&A with artifacts from the Frederick A. Luce Collection and learn about pre-European contact, Native Haverhill history. Program will showcase artifacts (such as lithics, steatite bowl fragments, ceramics, etc.) that span the ancient occupational periods in more detail. Museum interpreters will describe their uses and talk about the people […]
Our event will showcase hands-on activities that will excite youth and families (archaeological storytime, shoebox excavations, vase painting) and presentations on digital applications in archaeology (virtual reality, 3D scanning and printing, digital modeling of the built environment) that will appeal to advanced students and adults. In addition, we have a walking architectural tour of the […]
Fun and educational hands-on archaeology activities, information, and demonstrations. Throw spears, make pottery, learn about ancient foodways, stone tool making demonstrations, tour a prehistoric mound group and more! Toltec Mounds State Park, Scott, Arkansas, 10am-2pm, rain or shine. This event is brought to you by a partnership between the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Anthropology program, The Toltec […]
The San Diego County Archaeological Society presents an educational day of Archaeology and Fun at the historic Ranch House in Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve in support of International Archaeology Day. ➸ Find out what archaeology is all about; dig in a mock excavation; play games ➸ Discover the history of the Ranch House on a tour of the adobe ➸ Speak to local […]
Archaeology displays and hands-on activities from academic, CRM, and government archaeologists. More than 15 exhibits, plus activities such as throwing atlatls, seeing VR archaeological sites, and more!
On Saturday, October 20, 2018, Colorado National Monument will be hosting Archeology Day. Family-friendly activities are planned from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at the visitor center on Rim Rock Drive, 4 miles from the Fruita entrance station. To celebrate the human history of the monument, going back 13,000 years, National Park Service staff and […]
