ARCHAEOLOGICAL LOG BOOKS: RECORDING THE DETAILS OF OUR FINDS
Today we began with looking at how archaeologists record
their findings. Everyone was given
their own ‘Archaeologist Log Book’ and we had a go at recording a find. We had to make sure we recorded exactly
where the thing was found (i.e. what square it was found in), we drew a picture
of the find, classified it as either artifact/feature/midden/skeleton, and then
wrote a detailed description of the find.
Here is an entry that we share wrote for a Panathenaic
Amphora.
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| Part of an entry from one of the archaeological log books for the Panathenaic Amphora. |
‘This artifact is a pottery Panathenaic amphora. It was given as a prize at the
Panathenaic Games, which was held every four years in Athens in the Golden Age
(479-431BC). The lady on the vase
is the goddess Athena. She was the
goddess of wisdom in war and she was the goddess of Athens. They put olive oil in these to give to
the winners.’
Shared writing.
AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG!
Next we headed out on an 'excavation'! We used string to set up our dig site and we labelled each square so we would be able to record where we found things. We 'excavated' (by agreeing to believe that when we turned over an image we had 'dug it up') a stone sculpture that we
then had to do some research about.
Read some of the entries that were made in our Archaeologists log books
below.
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| Our Archaeological Dig Site! |
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| Part of an entry from one of the archaeological log books for the sculpture of the Contest of Athens. |
‘This is a sculpture on the West Pediment of the
Parthenon. It represents the
contest, Athena versus Poseidon.
Cecrops was the first king of Athens and the judge. Poseidon gave a salt water spring. Athena gave an olive tree. Athena won.’ By Professor Finlay: Archaeological Scientific Illustrator.
‘This is a stone sculpture of the goddess Athena and
Poseidon competing in a competition for Athens. Their sculptures are on top of the Parthenon in Athens. The sculptures have been made and
carved out of stone. For Athens
Poseidon gave a sea but sadly it was salty. Athena gave olive trees and won and that’s how it ended.’ By Auriel: Arhaeological Zoologist.
‘Poseidon gave a sea water lake but that was a useless
gift. Then Athena gave the town an
olive tree, which gave oil, olives, and wood. So Athena won.’ By Dr Kai: Underwater Archaeologist.
“This is a stone sculpture of Athena and Poseidon having a
context for who will be the ruler of Athens. Athena said she would gift a big olive tree and Poseidon
said he would make a stream. The
people lived the idea of the stream but they drank some water and it was
salty! So they chose Athena. Poseidon was so mad he flooded the area
around Athens.’ By Professor Parker:
Archaeological Scientific Illustrator.
‘This is a human made feature on the West Pediment of the
Parthenon. It is a stone statue of
the goddess Athena competing in a challenge against Poseidon for the city of
Athens. If you didn’t already know
the Parthenon has a twelve metre high statue of Athena because she won the
contest with her gift of an olive tree.
Poseidon gave them a salt water stream.’ By Cella: Archaeological Scientific Illustrator.
You can click on the link on the right hand sidebar ‘Contest
for Athens’ to hear a telling of this myth. This link is under the heading ‘Websites for our
Mantle’.
CONTINUING WITH THE ODYSSEY
In the afternoon we continued listening to the story of
Odysseus and making our story maps.
We listened to how Odysseus faced the bewitching enchantress Circe,
successfully got his ship and men past the mesmerising songs of the sirens, and
then how they faced the six headed monster Scylla and the water gulping
Charybdis. Here are some illustrations from our story maps.
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| Circe the Enchantress - turning Odysseus's men into swine. |
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Circe the Enchantress - Odysseus asks Circe to turn the swine back into his men.
 
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