Educational resources

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Ceramic shards, photograph courtesy MH Schoeman, University of Pretoria

A number of Southern African museums and universities run archaeological education programs.  We know about programs and resources at the following institutions:

Albany Museum, Grahamstown

The Albany Museum Education Department includes archaeology in their teaching programs.

For more information contact Marijke Cosser ( (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) or Nozipho Madinda ((JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)).

Tel: (046) 622 2312
Fax: (046) 622 2398

Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg

The Natal Museum Education Department, in collaboration with the Department of Human Sciences, runs an archaeology programme for schools on request. Booking is essential.

For more information contact the museum on (033) 345 1404 or fax (033) 345 0561. For more information about the museum visit www.nmsa.org.za

Educational posters available:

Later Stone Age: 25 000 – 100 years ago
Celebrating our African origins
South Africa: Cradle of Humankind
The Taung child: our most famous baby
Iron Age farmers, AD 400 – 1000
What do archaeologists do?

University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geography Archaeology and Environmental Studies, Johannesburg

Publications available:
Bonner, P., Esterhuysen, A. & T. Jenkins (eds) 2007. A search for origins. Science, History and South Africa’s ‘Cradle of Humankind’. Witwatersrand: University Press.

Esterhuysen A.B. 2007. Sterkfontein. Early hominid site in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’. Witwatersrand: University Press.
A Zulu version of this book is to be published shortly.

Esterhuysen A.B. (ed) 2004 Turning Point No. 1. Cape Town: New Africa Education.

Educational posters available:

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Preserving bone at the Shashe-Limpopo Confluence area, photograph courtesy MH Schoeman, University of Pretoria

Sterkfontein 2.6 million years ago.
Melville Koppies, Sotho Tswana village
Archaeological Excavation
Thulamela
Cradle of Humankind posters:
-Evolution and extinction
-Technology
-Debates and Discoveries
-Africa the Cradle of Humankind
-Sites on the Cradle of Humankind
-World Heritage

Educational videos available:
Sterkfontein
Debates and Discoveries

Contact Amanda Esterhuysen ((JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) for more information.

Teaching Web Links

Becoming Human: http://www.becominghuman.org/

About.com: Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/od/teachingarchaeology/Resources_for_the_Teacher.html

Discovery Education: Ancient Egypt: http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/tutankhamen

Banpo Village: Gone, But Not Forgotten: http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/banpo

School Arts – Views of Ancient Egypt: http://www.nga.gov/education/schoolarts/egypt.htm

WebQuest King Tutankhamun: Was It Murder?: http://www.pekin.net/pekin108/wash/webquest/index.html

MATRIX (Making Archaeology Teaching Relevant in the XXI century): http://www.indiana.edu/%7Earch/saa/matrix/