Archaeology – Day 2
Your children are enjoying their excavation. We have heard from many parents that their children are LOVING the dig. We are so pleased that your children are sharing with you the process of excavating artifacts. Today, the children shared with me (Julia is with the kids at the site) many items they uncovered. At this point, we are focusing on describing the objects. In a few days, we will ask the children to make inferences about why the artifacts might have been found together. Throughout the experience, the children will test these hypotheses.
Today, the children uncovered….
- A knife or dagger that looked like it had an ivory holder (or scabbard) and handle. Both were off-white in color and were engraved.
- A teapot that was broken in to two pieces. It was an orangey, brown color, like clay without any decoration. It looked pumpkin-shaped.
- An inkpad in a holder that looked like it was made out of china. Inside there was red ink that still worked! There was a print of the stamp indented on the pad. It was of a wormy dragon in the shape of an “S.”
- A coin made of copper. It is a pence, perhaps from London?
- Goblets or cup holders — at least 4 of them. They were decorated with thumb-like indents in them all over. They looked like a golden color. There was no handle.
- Many broken pieces of plates with designs that were light with brigh colors.
- Jade chopsticks. They were green.
- A blueish, green statue. It is an animal figure – unknown. It might be a lion or it might be a dragon or maybe a lion and a dragon mixed.
- A sharp knife in a case made out of camel bone? The case is a beige color with carved dragons on it.
- A bike pedal with an orange reflector.
- Two statues of people dressed in robes. One had a little hair. The other was bald.
- Mah Jong tiles, which are red on the one side and white on the other. There is Chinese writing on the white side of each tile.
- Golden dragon pin. The dragon is curly, sort of like a snake. The pin looks like real gold. The pin was open when we found it.
- Gold cup holders with cracked pieces of blue and white plates (porcelain?) inside. You could see fingerprints in the decorations, so we think they might have been hand-made.
- A dragon with a broken tail. The dragon was green with fangs and had an open mouth. There were scales on the top. The colors are green and white. The dragon was on all four legs — “It was rather cute!”
- Two turtles. One was white and one was green (jade?). They were different, but both were small. They were carved. We think they might be chopstick rests.
- A bag of coins. The bag is red with golden swirls on it. The coins are silver. There are a lot of Turkish coins. One coin had four holes on the edges.
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