Archaeologist

Excavates and studies historical artifacts and ruins to understand past human civilizations.

Did you know?

After finding Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, Howard Carter's team spent ten seasons recording and clearing its 5,398 objects.

History: Match the pots, coins and tools you dig up with what old records say about a lost city.
Geography: Read the landscape and old maps to guess where people once built homes and farms.
Biology: Study ancient bones and seeds to learn what people ate and how healthy they were.
Chemistry: Use radiocarbon dating to work out how old a piece of wood or bone really is.

Howard Carter: Discovered the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt's Valley of the Kings in 1922.

Fill your tub in layers: stones at the bottom, then different soils, sand and so on. Bury a button or two as "finds". Think about what each layer might mean, like a flood or a floor.
Push a stick down the side through a few layers, like an ancient fence post, then pull it out and watch the hole fill in.
Draw the layers as you see them from the side.
Give each layer a number. Archaeologists call this a "context number". Which layer is oldest, and how do you know? Wash your hands afterwards.

Archaeologists dig one layer at a time and number and draw each one, because the order of the layers tells them what happened first.

Also try: Clean an oily feather.

Egypt, Italy, Greece, UK, Peru