Newsletter - Spring 1998

Spring 1998  Volume 5, Number 1


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  • Cal Day 1998
CAL DAY 1998
Cal Day is Saturday, April 18th and the A.R.F. is joining in the Open House festivities. Stop by and visit us at 2251 College Building and enjoy our slide shows, live demon-strations and Hands -On activities.

9 am - Dr. Ruth Tringham demonstrates her multi-media approach to archaeology. Visitors will have hands- on exploration of her Chimera Web Interactive CD-ROM as well as other archaeological multi-media material.

10 am - Mini Excavation in ARF atrium: take part in a simulated excavation and learn how archaeologists excavate, map, and draw finds.. Kids Welcome!

Slide Show in ARF (2251 College Bldg.):  "Archaeology of Culture Contact in Northern California"

Dr. Kent Lightfoot, Barb Voss, & Steve Silliman

11 am - "Plants & People in the Past: Tour of the Paleoethnobotony Lab" in (basement) 50 Kroeber: - find out what people were eating 9,000 years ago and view remains of seeds from the Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk, Turkey -- Julie Near

How did they make that??? Experimental Archaeology for Kids. ARF Atrium (2251 College Bldg.) - Solve a mystery and test out an archaeological question with experimental archaeology.-- Autumn Payne

12 noon Slide Show in ARF (2251 College Bldg) on the Chiripa Project in Bolivia Ritual & Houses in Chiripa, Bolivia"

Emily Dean

1 pm - Slide Show in ARF on Ancient Coins "Ancient Coins: Where they come from, how they were made and what they were used for?" --Dr. Robert Knapp

2 pm - Mini Excavation in ARF atrium: take part in a simulated excavation and learn how archaeologists excavate, map, and draw finds.. --Kids Welcome!

Stone Tool Making Demonstration - see how prehistoric people made stone tools. -- Paolo Pellegatti

3 pm - Slide show & video presentation in the ARF "Archaeology in Egypt" -- Dr. Carol Redmount

Posters displayed which illustrate & describe Cal Archaeologists' work from around the world!

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