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Analyse the finds in the laboratory to get more clues!

Or

What will you do next?

A human bone. It is big enough to belong to a man. 

Pieces of stone that have been shaped into tools. The best stone to use for this is called 'flint'.

A handful of grains. They have been burned on a fire and that is how they survived for all these years.

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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