Thursday, 28 January 2010

Anthropology musem explores Atlantic and the Khmer empire


via CAAI News Media
By Catherine Meidell - The Utah Statesman

Jan 27, 2010

Atlantis and the Khmer empire are two of many civilizations considered to be lost by archaeologists, said Katie Anderson, graduate of the USU Museum Certificate Program. The Anthropology Museum’s Saturdays at the Museum public event featured these two ancient groups from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., yielding participants ranging from college students to elementary students.

Presentations on the civilizations were available as well as activities for a younger crowd that challenged them to think like archaeologists. For one activity, Anderson and Megan Izatt, senior history major, pulled random objects out of a bag and asked the children participants to pretend they found the objects in someone’s trash can.

They then told the children to think about what the object might reveal about the previous owner. Other activities were organized to teach the process archaeologists execute to learn about ancient civilizations through artifacts, Anderson said. The children were rewarded for their efforts with an archaeologist hat resembling the one worn by Indiana Jones.

Anderson spoke with many groups who traveled through the museum’s exhibits about what causes a city to become lost. The Khmer empire was located in Cambodia and first unified in A.D. 800, Anderson said. Over time, as the climate began to change, the weather was no longer predictable and the water system could not be retained for the rice fields. This is why the empire collapsed in A.D. 1300. It was no longer possible to support a large city, so the people created smaller villages to live in.

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