Archaeology Unit Phase I - Creating a Civilization

  

• Teams of students have studied cultural universals that represent a society, such as their government, economics, attitude toward the unknown, ethics, and values. 
• They then did "backward" archaeology by creating a civilization in the past, present, or future, and deciding which cultural universals were the most important to that society. Each team member made two artifacts that would best represent those aspects of their society. 
• They also created a written language, leaving behind a "Rosetta Stone" with their culture's language, English, and Latin or another language on it, and artifacts with only their language on them that must be deciphered.

• Soon another team will try to interpret their artifacts, decode their language, and make inferences about what was important to their culture.
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