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VOl. 14 No. 3

The Matching Game

Materials Needed: 2. Draw a grid, punch holes at the corners
of each square, and put a thread/ rope/
• Chart Paper
• rope string into the holes to outline each
square, just like a real dig site!
• Printed photos of fossils or artefacts
Setup: 3. Create the matching cards by choosing
1. To create the game-board, stick two 10 photos like the ones below, print two
sheets of paper together. You can of each, and sticking them to a paper to
make them a little sturdier.
laminate it if you want.
You can use the following cards.

1. The 2. an 3. Tools of an 4. indus Valley 5. Toys From 6. ganga 7.Nalanda 8. Dice from 9. roman pottery 10. Delhi
archaeologist excavation archaeologist seals indus Valley sculpture, Mahavihara: sanghol excavated at sultanate
gupta Period bronze sculpture arikamedu coins
of bodhisattva
rulES Of THE gaME
• Take turns picking up two cards to find a match. even if you don't find one, move on to your friend. • Keep going until all the matches are found. • at the end of the game, the person
with the most matches wins the title of "lead archaeologist"!

MAtCh the FoLLoWiNG
CAN YoU NAMe Me?

I am perhaps the oldest centre of learning, Potsherds study of currency and coins
I gave ancient wisdom its true meaning.
Numismatics study of different layers of rock
Lord Krishna was a part of my story stratigraphy study of humans
Underwater today, once I lived in glory.
anthropology a broken piece of pottery found
From Rome merchants came to me, in ruins
Now in Tamil Nadu, then a port across the high sea.

Under mounds of mud my fate seemed sealed,
But thanks to archaeology my solar beauty was revealed

My most amazing find was a Harappan granary Few institutions offer courses in
An ancient site revealed. A Haryana story.
Archaeology.
1. institute of archaeology, red Fort, The archaeological
survey of india
the iNtACh MAN! 2. Deccan College Post-graduate and research institute,

Pune
The iNTaCh logo has been derived from a 3000-year 3. Maharaja sayajirao university of baroda, Vadodara
old anthropomorphic copper figure from shahabad in 4. Delhi institute of heritage research and Management,
Delhi
uttar Pradesh. it was discovered in the ganga Valley. its
5. Centre For archaeological studies & Training, eastern
arms are turned inwards symbolising preservation for india, Kolkata
the future. Do you know what does anthropomorphic 6. National institute of advanced studies, bengaluru
7. banaras hindu university, Varanasi
mean? it means ascribing of human characteristics to 8. Punjab university, Chandigarh
non-living beings. 9. university of Calcutta, Kolkata

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