Children of the Past: Archaeology and the Lives of Kids
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 4 CHAPTER 1 CAVE ROAMING KIDS 6 CHAPTER 2 HUNTER GATHERER KIDS 16 CHAPTER 3 FARMER KIDS 26 CHAPTER 4 COLONIAL KIDS 32 CHAPTER 5 KIDS OF FORT MOSE 42 CONCLUSION 50 AUTHOR S NOTE 51 SOURCE NOTES 52 GLOSSARY 52 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 5 3 FOR MORE INFOR MATION 53 INDEX 55
INTRODUCTION Did you know that kids in the past were a lot like you They played made things and did tasks around the house In fact if you were to meet N one of these children from the past it probably wouldn t be long before you'd be playing together and sharing stories about your favorite activities But children in the past also were different For example a lot of your a learning happens in school In the past kids mostly learned at home See And kids back then played but they also worked from a young age They learned to draw pictures make stone tools chase birds away from crops create clay pots and more They learned what they needed to know to live in their times Their labor was important to their families and also to the larger group they belonged to So how do we get to know these kids from the past We have some written records but not very many In Jamestown the first successful English settlement in what later became the United States people didn t even bother recording the birth of the first baby there We have other clues though Archaeologists can find out about children by studying the stuff they left behind It's interesting to think about what these kids looked like or what they wore But it's even more exciting to learn what they did From children playing in prehistoric caves to hardworking teens in an early colony to courageous kids escaping slavery let's explore the lives of some children from the
Archaeologist Mary Anna Richardson carefully works to reveal an artifact in Jamestown Virginia NY Archaeologists found this piece of a bottle at the Fort Mose site near Saint Augustine Florida Thousands of years ago people in many parts of the world made projectile points and other tools out of stone These flint tools come from North Africa and were made between six thousand and nine thousand years ago A student archaeologist digs at an excavation site at Fort Mose near Saint Augustine
