Archaeology: Merit Badge Workbook

Archaeology
Merit Badge Workbook

This workbook can help you but you still need to read the merit badge pamphlet. The work space provided for each requirement should be used by the Scout to make notes for discussing the item with his counselor, not for providing the full and complete answers. Each Scout must do each requirement. No one may add or subtract from the official requirements found in Boy Scout Requirements (Pub. 33216 SKU 34765). The requirements were last issued or revised in 2007 This workbook was updated in May 2013.
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1. Tell what archaeology is and explain how it differs from anthropology, geology, paleontology, and history. Archaeology
Anthropology:
Geology:
Paleontology:
History:
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Archaeology
Scout's Name: ________________________
2. Describe each of the following steps of the archaeological process: site location, site excavation, artifact identification and examination, interpretation, preservation, and information sharing. Site location:
Site excavation:
Artifact identification:
Examination:
Preservation:
Information sharing:
3. Describe at least two ways in which archaeologists determine the age of sites, structures, or artifacts. 1. 2. Explain what relative dating is.
4. Do TWO of the following: a. Learn about three archaeological sites located outside the United States. 1. 2. 3.
Archaeology - Merit Badge Workbook
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Archaeology
Scout's Name: ________________________
b. Gather research on three archaeological sites that are within the United States. 1. 2. 3. c. Visit an archaeological site and learn about it. Site visited: For EACH site you research for options a, b, or c, point it out on a map and explain how it was discovered. Describe some of the information about the past that has been found at each site. Explain how the information gained from the study of these sites answers questions that archaeologists are asking and how the information may be important to modern people. Compare the relative ages of the sites you research. (Maps of the World and of the contiguous United States can be found at the end of the workbook) Site 1: Point it out on a map Inside the USA Outside the USA Visited Explain how it was discovered.
Describe some of the information from the past that has been found at the site.
Explain how the information gained from the study of this sites answers questions that archaeologists are asking
Explain how the information may be important for modern people.
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Archaeology
Scout's Name: ________________________
Site 2: Point it out on a map Inside the USA Outside the USA Visited Explain how it was discovered.
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Archaeology
Scout's Name: ________________________
Site 3: Point it out on a map Inside the USA Outside the USA Visited Explain how it was discovered.
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Archaeology Site 4: Point it out on a map Inside the USA
Scout's Name: ________________________
Outside the USA
Visited
Explain how it was discovered.
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Scout's Name: ________________________
Outside the USA
Visited
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Scout's Name: ________________________
Outside the USA
Visited
Compare the relative ages of the sites you researched. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 5. Choose ONE of the sites you picked for Requirement 4 and give a short presentation about your findings to a Cub Scout pack, your Scout troop, your school class, or another group.
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Archaeology
Scout's Name: ________________________
6. Do the following: a. Explain why it is important to protect archaeological sites.
b. Explain what people should do if they think they have found an artifact.
c. Describe ways in which you can be a protector of the past.
7. Do ONE of the following: a. Make a list if items you would like to include in a time capsule.
Discuss with your merit badge counselor what archaeologist a thousand years from now might learn from the contents of your capsule about you and the culture in which you live.
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Archaeology b. Make a list of the trash your family throws out during one week.
Scout's Name: ________________________
Discuss with your counselor what archaeologists finding that trash a thousand years from now might learn from it about you and your family.
8. Do ONE of the following: a. Under the supervision of a qualified archaeologist, spend at least eight hours helping to excavate and archaeological site. b. Under the supervision of a qualified archaeologist, spend at least eight hours in an archaeological laboratory helping to prepare artifacts for analysis, storage, or display. c. If you are unable to work in the field or in a laboratory under the supervision of a qualified archaeologist, you my substitute a mock dig. To find out how to make a mock dig, talk with a professional archaeologist, trained avocational archaeologist, museum school instructor, junior high or high school science teacher, advisor from a local archaeology society, or other qualified instructor. Plan what you will bury in your artificial site to show use of your "site" during two time periods.
9. Under the supervision of a qualified archaeologist or instructor, do ONE of the following: a. Help prepare an archeological exhibit for display in a museum, visitor center, school, or other public area. b. Use the methods of experimental archaeology to re-create an item or to practice a skill from the past. Write a brief report explaining the experiment and its results.
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Archaeology 10. Do ONE of the following:
Scout's Name: ________________________
a. Research American Indians who live or once lived in your area. Find out about traditional lifeways, dwellings, clothing styles, arts and crafts, and methods of food gathering, preparation, and storage.
Describe what you would expect to find at an archaeological site for these people.
b. Research settlers or soldiers who were in your area at least 100 years ago. Find out about the houses or forts, ways of life, clothing styles, arts and crafts, and dietary habits of the early settlers, farmers, ranchers, soldiers, or townspeople who once lived in the area where your community now stands.
Describe what you would expect to find at an archaeological site for these people.
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Archaeology 11. Identify three career opportunities in archaeology. 1. 2. 3.
Scout's Name: ________________________
Pick one and explain how to prepare for such a career. Discuss with your counselor what education and training are required, and explain why this profession might interest you. Education
Training
Why this profession might interest you.
Requirement resources can be found here: http://www.meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Archaeology#Requirement resources
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Archaeology
Scout's Name: ________________________
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Important excerpts from the Guide To Advancement - 2013, No. 33088 (SKU-618673)
[1.0.0.0] Introduction The current edition of the Guide to Advancement is the official source for administering advancement in all Boy Scouts of America programs: Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Varsity Scouting, Venturing, and Sea Scouts. It replaces any previous BSA advancement manuals, including Advancement Committee Policies and Procedures, Advancement and Recognition Policies and Procedures, and previous editions of the Guide to Advancement. [Page 2, and 5.0.1.4] Policy on Unauthorized Changes to Advancement Program No council, committee, district, unit, or individual has the authority to add to, or subtract from, advancement requirements. There are limited exceptions relating only to youth members with special needs. For details see section 10, Advancement for Members With Special Needs. [Page 2] The Guide to Safe Scouting Applies Policies and procedures outlined in the Guide to Safe Scouting, No. 34416, apply to all BSA activities, including those related to advancement and Eagle Scout service projects. [7.0.3.1] The Buddy System and Certifying Completion A youth member must not meet one-on-one with an adult. Sessions with counselors must take place where others can view the interaction, or the Scout must have a buddy: a friend, parent, guardian, brother, sister, or other relativeor better yet, another Scout working on the same badgealong with him attending the session. When the Scout meets with the counselor, he should bring any required projects. If these cannot be transported, he should present evidence, such as photographs or adult verification. His unit leader, for example, might state that a satisfactory bridge or tower has been built for the Pioneering merit badge, or that meals were prepared for Cooking. If there are questions that requirements were met, a counselor may confirm with adults involved. Once satisfied, the counselor signs the blue card using the date upon which the Scout completed the requirements, or in the case of partials, initials the individual requirements passed. Note that from time to time, it may be appropriate for a requirement that has been met for one badge to also count for another. See Fulfilling More Than One Requirement With a Single Activity, 4.2.3.6. [7.0.3.2] Group Instruction It is acceptableand sometimes desirablefor merit badges to be taught in group settings. This often occurs at camp and merit badge midways or similar events. Interactive group discussions can support learning. The method can also be attractive to guest experts assisting registered and approved counselors. Slide shows, skits, demonstrations, panels, and various other techniques can also be employed, but as any teacher can attest, not everyone will learn all the material. There must be attention to each individuals projects and his fulfillment of all requirements. We must know that every Scout actually and personally completed them. If, for example, a requirement uses words like show, demonstrate, or discuss, then every Scout must do that. It is unacceptable to award badges on the basis of sitting in classrooms watching demonstrations, or remaining silent during discussions. It is sometimes reported that Scouts who have received merit badges through group instructional settings have not fulfilled all the requirements. To offer a quality merit badge program, council and district advancement committees should ensure the following are in place for all group instructional events. Merit badge counselors are known to be registered and approved. Any guest experts or guest speakers, or others assisting who are not registered and approved as merit badge counselors, do not accept the responsibilities of, or behave as, merit badge counselors, either at a group instructional event or at any other time. Their service is temporary, not ongoing. Counselors agree not to assume prerequisites have been completed without some level of evidence that the work has been done. Pictures and letters from other merit badge counselors or unit leaders are the best form of prerequisite documentation when the actual work done cannot be brought to the camp or site of the merit badge event. There is a mechanism for unit leaders or others to report concerns to a council advancement committee on summer camp merit badge programs, group instructional events, and any other merit badge counseling issuesespecially in instances where it is believed BSA procedures are not followed. See Reporting Merit Badge Counseling Concerns, 11.1.0.0. There must be attention to each individuals projects and his fulfillment of all requirements. We must know that every Scoutactually and personallycompleted them. [7.0.3.3] Partial Completions A Scout need not pass all the requirements of one merit badge with the same counselor. It may be that due to timing or location issues, etc., he must meet with a different counselor to finish the badge. The Application for Merit Badge has a place to record what has been finisheda partial. In the center section on the reverse of the blue card, the counselor initials for each requirement passed. In the case of a partial completion, the counselor does not retain his or her portion of the card. A subsequent counselor may choose not to accept partial work, but this should be rare. A Scout, if he believes he is being treated unfairly, may work with his unit leader to find another counselor. An example for the use of a signed partial would be to take it to camp as proof of prerequisites. Partials have no expiration except the Scouts 18th birthday. Units, districts, or councils shall not establish other expiration dates for partial merit badges. [7.0.4.8] Unofficial Worksheets and Learning Aids Worksheets and other materials that may be of assistance in earning merit badges are available from a variety of places including unofficial sources on the Internet and even troop libraries. Use of these aids is permissible as long as the materials can be correlated with the current requirements that Scouts must fulfill. Completing worksheets may suffice where a requirement calls for something in writing, but this would not work for a requirement where the Scout must discuss, tell, show, or demonstrate, etc. Note that Scouts shall not be required to use these learning aids in order to complete a merit badge.
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Scouts Name:__________________________________________ Counselors Name: ______________________________________

Unit: __________________________________________ Counselors Phone No.: ___________________________

Scout's Name: ________________________