Science Fenns / Deep time
The Archaeologist’s Lab
A tent, a trench, and a scientist who has been waiting all morning for someone to ask a good question.
Grandpa Fenn’s room
What is in this room?
Grandpa Fenn hid five things worth knowing. Tap the glowing dots and find them all.
Each one has something to learn.
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Brush, do not dig
Something is buried under the sand. Drag your brush across the picture. Go slowly. Good archaeologists never rush.
Poppy’s quiz
Poppy has five questions for you
Grandpa Fenn’s story
The Pot in Layer Three
Dr. Mari knelt at the edge of the trench. The morning was already warm.
She did not dig. She brushed. One stroke, then another. Dust rose and settled.
Something curved came out of the dirt. Then a line. Then a pattern.
Zigzags. Red ones, all around the rim.
She sat back on her heels. Somebody made this. Somebody pressed those lines into wet clay and set it in the sun. Somebody carried water in it.
That somebody was not a king. It was an ordinary person on an ordinary day. And Dr. Mari was the first person to see their work in a very long time.
Grandpa Fenn’s notebook
Say it like a scientist
Something a person made or used.
One stripe of earth in the trench.
To uncover slowly and carefully.
Squares drawn on the ground so nothing gets lost.
Where a thing was lying. Sometimes more important than the thing.
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Take a journey
A guided trip with Grandpa Fenn and Poppy. Stops to explore and questions to answer.
