The First Americans: The Excavation of Blackwater Draw Video

Video title: The Excavation of Blackwater Draw

Use this Native American History video entitled The Excavation of Blackwater Draw to study Blackwater Draw, an important archaeological site where generations of the earliest occupants of the New World lived, creating a layer cake of human settlement debris

Discover how carbon 14 dating revealed that the bones and weapons found at Blackwater Draw were from four separate occupations of the site, dating back 11,500 years.

 

Now Playing: The First Americans: The Excavation of Blackwater Draw Video
Video Mode: Free Demo© Copyright 2007 - 2024 ZP Online Publishing

The First Americans: The Excavation of Blackwater Draw Video . Learning Objectives for this video:

  • Black Water Draw. Learn about The Excavation of Blackwater Draw. Learn about the Paleoindians, or 'First Indians', who populated the American continent about 11,500 years ago.
  • Discover how analyzing the tools and weapons found at key archaeological digs in Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado have given us detailed information about how the Paleoindian cultures lived.
  • Explore the unique culture from the mammoth hunters to the buffalo hunters to the ancestors of today's Native American cultures.
  • Describe the North American climate during and after the Pleistocene age.
  • Learn different types of dating methods, including Carbon 14 dating, tree-ring dating, and stratigraphy.
  • Discover the many benefits of using online video for visual learning. Educational video for teaching the K-12 curriculum provides online learning for children and students of all ages and abilities. Using subtitled video - or video with closed captions - enables children to choose between watching, listening to, or reading each presentation whichever best suites their individual learning style. A wonderful option particularly for dyslexia and special needs education.

New members join now