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Analyse the finds in the laboratory to get more clues!

Or

What will you do next?

A human bone. Its size fits more with coming from a woman.

A piece of ceramic. By the shape you can tell it belonged to a transport or storage vessel.

A metal brooch. It shimmers like gold and has many colourful jewels on it.

You examine the items and find some clues:

Ready to guess the character!

bones

teeth

char-coal

diet

stone tools

grain

cera-

mics

metal

glass

coins

The Middle Stone Age

The New

Stone Age

The Bronze Age

The Roman Empire

Archaeologists will first observe finds. They compare the clues they find with what is already known to figure out what they are.

What humans left behind changes through time. Using the clues you found and this chart you may be able to guess which character left these items.  

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© ArCPIG, VUB, 2016. Illustrations: © Christina Makarona, 2016

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