Miss McDonald / Name: ______
Date: ______Block: ____
What Can We Learn from an Artifact?
ArtifactFeature / What can you learn about our society from this feature?
Example:
Year 2002 inscribed / · Year the artifact was created
· How the society measures time (in C.E. years)
What Can We Learn from an Artifact?
ArtifactFeature / What can you learn about our society from this feature?
Example:
Year 2002 inscribed / · Year the artifact was created
· How the society measures time (in C.E. years)
Lincoln Head / Ruler, God?, important person
In god we trust / Religion
Engraved / Machinery
Copper / Access to copper and ability to mine the copper
Lincoln Memorial / Infrastructure, ability to create grand buildings, purpose of building?, memorialize buildings
Latin:
E pluribus unum / Coin has two languages—English and Latin
Out of many, one
Liberty / Value of the society
United States of America / Civilization name, or name of building?
One Cent / Currency, not bartering for trade; Monetary denomination