Archaeologists use information about modern people to help interpret what people of the past did and what their lives were like. This means that you actually take part in the activity you see people doing at the same time that you make observations about it. You take notes while you do it, just like an archaeologist takes notes at a dig. For your expert role activity, we are going to look at art. Sometimes in archaeology sites art is easy to see.
People make paintings or sculptures.
We are going to do two different activities. One will be to participate in making paintings using some of the same kinds of tools, paints, and methods that people used to make cave paintings nearly 40,000 years ago. Modern Australian Aborigines use the same methods. Another activity is to learn about a musical instrument used by Aborigines. It is called a didjeridoo.