For Teachers


Digging Up Mesopotamia
Archaeology of the Ancient World

Art in Archaeology

A lesson plan for art classes on the many ways the work of the artist
 contributes to modern archaeology.


This lesson may be used in several ways:

1.   as a  supplement to your mock dig to provide students  with  examples of  the various kinds of pictorial recording they may need to do;

2.  as an Art component for an interdisciplinary unit of study;

3.  as a stand-alone Art lesson.

Click on the thumbnail to print the cover for this lesson plan,
then return to this page and follow the link below for the
pages for the rest of the lesson .

DigMeso_cover.jpg (114955 bytes)

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