BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — History students at a Bainbridge Island school really dig into their history class.
The seventh-graders at the private Hyla school are divided into groups that are assigned to create two ancient cultures based in the Himalayan Mountains and Amazon River — complete with language, religion, clothing, housing and family structures.
The Kitsap Sun reports they make artifacts out of bone, wood and other materials and bury them.
The artifacts are dug up by the other group in an archaeology exercise.
Then, the artifacts are displayed with comparisons of the original culture’s descriptions and the hypothesized explanations from the archaeologists.
