Cub Archaeologist Badge
Badge requirements
- Explain to the examiner what these words mean to you: History, Archaeology and Archaeologist.
- Research a famous South African archaeologist and what they discovered.
- Name 10 World Heritage Sites in South Africa and choose four sites to tell the examiner why they are important to South African’s history.
- Choose two of these options:
- List five rules that archaeologists should follow whilst excavating or five rules that they need to follow when visiting an archaeological site.
- Visit an Archaeological or Rock Art site.
- Write a short description of the site you visited.
- Write down three things that might have changed since they built it.
- How did the people in those days use the site.
- Discover the use of two artefacts, each from a different time and compare them to their modern-day counterparts.
- What is an artefact? Name two artefacts that were found and do we still have them today?
- When is South African Heritage Day and what is the day about?
This badge is based on the Derbyshire Scout Archaeology Badge. For more information and activities relating to Archaeology please visit https://www.derbyshirescouts.org/activity/Archaeology.
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