Stone tools. Pottery. Fragments of bone. This isn’t archaeology. Where’s the Holy Grail? What about the Ark of the Covenant? "Some of the things archaeologists find exciting have little to do with ...

How do you get children to enthusiastically read nonfiction books about dusty relics of the past? Ask Caitlin Sockin, because in DIG IT! she has cracked the code.” — Terri Eichholz, ...

Readers can analyze soil, make an oil lamp like those used by the Greeks and Romans, and emulate the work of Mary Leakey, who estimated the height of ancient animals by examining fossilized footprints ...

If you do, and if you’ll be in sixth- or seventh-grade in the 2014-15 school year, there’s an opportunity this summer for hands-on experience at Portage’s Historic Indian Agency House. Destinee ...