Archaeology Bibliography

 

            Addy, Sharon Hart. (1999). Right Here on This Spot. Illus. John Clapp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.  RL: 3. Moving from the field where Grandpa plows to plant his cabbages, we travel back in time when the land was the shore of a glacial lake where ancient peoples used stone tools to hunt mammoth, Illinois and Potawatomi hunted deer, a Civil War soldier lost a button, and all this evidence was buried in the ground.

 

            Aliki. (1977/96). Wild and Woolly Mammoths, Revised Edition. Illus. Aliki. New York: HarperCollins. RL: 3. Information about life in the time of woolly mammoths, those who hunted them, and the discovery of a mammoth found frozen in Siberia.

 

            Begley, Sharon, & Murr, Andrew. (1999, April 26). The First Americans. Newsweek, 50-57. RL: 6.

 

            Chorlton, Windsor. (2001). Woolly Mammoth: Life, Death,and Rediscovery. Photos. New York: Scholastic. RL: 4. Story of the discovery and excavation of a woolly mammoth found frozen in the snow.

 

            Dubowski, Mark, & Cathy East. (1998). Ice Mummy: Discovery of 5000 Year Old Man. Photos. (Step into Reading, L. 3). New York: Random House. RL: 2-3. Information about the discovery of a body found in the snow of the Italian Alps by two hikers. Further investigation revealed that it was the mummy of a prehistoric man along with his clothing and possessions. Scientific investigation has revealed information about his culture and lifestyle.

 

            Duke, Kate. (1997). Archaeologists Dig for Clues. Illus. Kate Duke. New York: HarperCollins (Let's Read and Find Out Science, Stage 2). RL: 2. An archaeologist takes a group of children to a dig where they learn the ins and outs of processes used by archaeologist to find, identify, map and preserve items they discover and hypothesize about what might have happened at the time when these items were in use. Terminology well explained.

 

            Garfield, Gary M., & McDonough, Suzanne. (1997). Dig that Site: Exploring Archaeology, History, and Civilization on the Internet. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited. Lesson plans and internet sites related to a number of ancient sites across each continent.

 

            Griffey, Harriet. (1998). Secrets of the Mummies. (Eyewitness Readers L. 4) Photos. New York: DK Inc. RL: 4. Information about how mummies have been created across time, beginning with the Egyptians and Incas to Sicilian monks and modern practitioners who mummified Eva Peron and Lenin.

 

            Guiberson, Brenda Z.   (1990). Turtle People. New York: Atheneum. RL: 4. Richie and his father used to hunt for Native American artifacts on their pear farm in Washington, but now his parents have split up, his father has gone to Seattle to find work to support the farm, and his mother spends all of her time cleaning and leaving little notes for Richie and his sister. When Richie finds a stone bowl on an island in the Snake River, he must rely on all of his resources to get it off the island, but he comes to realize that it's not desirable to be one of the turtle people.

 

            Hightshoe, Susan. (1997). Sifting through the sands of times: A simulated archaeological dig. Social Studies and the Young Learner, Jan./Feb., 28-30.

 

            Hyman, Mark. (2001). One step at a time: A landmine removal initiative. Middle Level Learning, May/June, 10-15.

 

            Lasky, Kathryn. (1988). Bone Wars. New York: Puffin. RL: 5-6. Historical fiction that details the life of Thad, a teenage cowhand and scout, who joins an archaeological dig when two famous archaeologists, one from Boston and one from England, are fighting to discover new dinosaurs and bring them back to their own institutions. Thad becomes friends with a young Sioux seer related to Sitting Bull and is a in the area where Custer's troops are destroyed by Crazy Horse. He also teams up with the son of the English scientist and they secretly discover a triceratops skull, independent of the two competing teams.

 

            Lasky, Kathryn. (1989). Traces of life: The origins of humankind. Illustrated by Whitney Powell. New York: William Morrow. Thought provoking history of hominid research.

 

            Lasky, Kathryn. (1990). Dinosaur Dig. Photos by Christopher G. Knight. New York: William Morrow. RL: 4. The Knight family travel to Montana where they take part in an excavation of dinosaur fossils.

 

            Lauber, Patricia. (1985). Tales Mummies Tell. Photos. New York: HarperCollins. RL: 4.

 

            Lessem, Don. (1994). The Iceman. Photos. New York: Crown. RL: 4. Information about the discovery of a frozen, mummified corpse found in the Italian/Austrian Alps and believed to have lived 5000-5500 years ago. Artifacts found near the body provide considerable information about life in that time period. A description of how the body was found and neglected until scientists finally realized what he was presents evidence of poor archaeological form. A closing narrative describes hypothetical events in the man's life before he froze in the mountains.

 

            Macaulay, David. (1977). Castle. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (Caldecott Honor). Details of the imaginary construction of a 13^th century English castle built on the border with Wales.

 

Macaulay, David. (1983). Mill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Construction and machinery involved in various mills of 19^th century New England.

 

Macaulay, David. (1993). Ship. London: Dorling Kindersley Limited. Examination of marine archaeology and historical research needed to fill in the details about a 16^th century ship found in the waters of the Caribbean. Fictional but based on factual events.

 

            Matte, Jacqueline A. (1993). Southeastern Indians, precontact to the present: Introductory essay. Social Education, 57, 292-314.

 

            McGowen, Tom. (1997). Adventures in Archaeology. New York: Twenty-First Century Books. Short bits of information about a number of important archaeological digs, items found, questions raised, and individuals important to what has been learned.

 

            Moloney, Norah. (1995). The Young Oxford Book of Archaeology. New York: Oxford University Press. Two chapters about what archaeology is and how items are dated, followed by sections on many of the important archaeological sites.

 

            Perlmutt, David. (2001, Feb. 18). Buried treasures: Camera reveals vestiges of historic structures. Charlotte Observer, 1B, 5B.

 

            Purcell, William. (2000, Dec. 11). Researchers discover 1,800-year-old Native American village on the Biltmore Estate. Appalachian Scene.

 

            Rohmann, Eric. (1994). Time Flies. Illustrated by Eric Rohmann (Caldecott Honor). Wordless picture book fantasy of travel through time to the age of dinosaurs.

 

            Searcy, Margaret Z. (1989). Ikwa of the Mound-Builder Indians. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishers.

 

            Strauss, Victoria. (1995). Guardian of the Hills. New York: William Morrow. RL: 6. When Pamela and her mother find that they no longer have the resources to survive on their own during the Depression, they return to her grandfather's home in Flat Hills, Arkansas. There Pamela learns that her Indian heritage is to play a major role in her future as her grandfather decides to sponsor an archaeological dig to excavate the ancient mounds in the nearby valley.

 

            Wilcox, Charlotte. (1993). Mummies and Their Mysteries. Photos. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, Inc. RL: 4.

 

            Wilkinson, Phil (Ed.). (1989). Eyewitness Books: Early Humans. Photos and drawings. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. RL: 4-5. Organized around various attributes and accomplishments of humans through a broad range of times, from the discovery of fire through the Bronze and Iron Ages, and across continents. Heavily illustrated and short pieces of text about the various topics: food, artistic endeavors, clothing, burial customs, money, hunting and agriculture.

 

            Yell, Michael M. (1998). The time before history: Thinking like an archaeologist. Social Education, Jan., 27-31.