 Time Team America  Woodward Students Explore Prehistoric
Oklahoma  MVI_0229_frame_L.jpg"It's shocking," said seventh
grader Ravin about the Folsom people who once hunted bison in
her neighborhood. "I never knew anything about them." As she and
her fellow Time Team America field school participants learned,
Northwestern Oklahoma was a very different place 10,000 years
ago.  Badger_Fieldschool_grid.jpgThis June, Time Team America
field school director Dr. Alex Jones led a group of Woodward,
Oklahoma girls on a week-long discovery of how archaeological
sciences can reveal the ancient past lying beneath their feet.
IMG_2934_L.jpgThe field school kicked off with a trip to the Sam
Noble Museum of Natural History in Norman, Oklahoma, where the
girls learned the process (such as measuring grid lines and
sifting the soil) of excavation on simulated digs in the
Museum's archaeology lab.  lab_2shot.jpgAt the University of
Oklahoma, they took an exclusive tour of one of the few American
DNA labs researching ancient DNA