Jeffers Petroglyphs Historic Site Outreach Program

Site supervisor, Pam Jensen, and her assistant Shelley Olson created and presented two programs sharing information about archaeology. One program designed for children 4-8 years of age explained what an archaeologist did and how they do their job. The children then "excavated" in tubs looking for bones, and used those bones to recreate the animal -- a buffalo. The second program for ages 9-12 was of similar subject matter, but in more detail. The children had an opportunity to do a simulated excavation site that the presenters had created in our parking lot. They went through three layers of earth uncovering artifacts from eacy layer, marking, mapping and sifting and labeling each item as archaeologists do.