Very few archaeology books for children make their way to my desk--and although based on that I can't really say for sure, it may be that there are only a handful dealing with modern archaeological issues.
The latest children's book I've seen is called Reading the Bones: A Peggy Henderson Adventure, written by Gina McMurchy-Barber and published in 2008 by Dundurn Press. McMurchy-Barber is an archaeologist by training and a teacher, who won the 2004 Governor General's Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History.
Reading the Bones is about a middle schooler who discovers a human skull in her backyard, and is thus introduced to modern cultural resource management and Coastal Salish archaeology. I think the book is an interesting way to introduce cultural resource management issues to curious kids.
- Reading the Bones, where you'll find my complete book review
- Reading the Bones, from Price Grabber
- More children's books on archaeology
Comments
Since you’ve closed the topic, I’ll write here. In your 10,000 bc. kinda blog. I saw a discussions between people happening in a civil manner. I then saw people, including yourself Kris, trying to make others feel stupid for their beliefs. But quite frankly, several of those people had good points. The purpose of a discussion/debate is to rise up and learn and educate everybody – not exclude them. Which is exactly what you were doing.
If you are going to open a blog stating that a movie based on events that you don’t believe happened, then you should be prepared to deal with what comes your way. Instead, you chose to shut down the blog, claiming it had gone off topic.How did it go off topic? These people were all discussing alternate views of history.
What kind of debate is it when some can throw a tantrum and refuse to listen any more and stop the other people from communicating?
The only people I saw being rude were yourself,brent and a few others. You people were talking down to the ones who felt differently than you. I saw no one attacking anyone until you people started in with your smug…and yes it was smug, comments about how odd or silly these people were being. Telling them to be pirates looking for treasure.
really now kris, you should be ashamed for acting like a brat.
I have no respect for people like you who think they are scientists, you’re nothing more than a smug know it all who can’t stand to be challenged. You never did answer their questions.
Thanks for your comments about this interesting book for kids. As I suggested, please take this discussion to the bulletin board:
Archaeology at About.com Bulletin Board.
I just received a copy of the Oxford edition of World Mythology from the history book club and find it an excellant research tool for any level and is about as complete as any text I’ve used in my 6+ years of archaeology research
I am concentrating my field of study in archaeology and am diversified in both cultural and biological anthropology Linguistics is an important discipline as well is medical anthropology which is becoming a 5th subdiscipline
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I appreciate the thorough critique of my book, Reading the Bones. It means a lot to me to see it here on this site, as this is where I come when looking for information for the classroom.