Archeology
Reconstruction 
Marlys Henke developed the following multicultural activity for her mathematics class:
"ANTHROPOLOGY
Background Information: Anthropology is the science of people and culture. It has five major divisions. Physical anthropology is the study of humans as biological organisms. Social anthropology is the study of social relationships of groups. Linguistic anthropology is the study of language as used by different societies. Archaeology is the study of past cultures. Cultural anthropology is the study and comparison of human cultures.
Dr. Margaret Mead (1901-1978) did much to bring anthropology to public awareness by her well-written books, inspiring lectures, and outspokenness concerning the problems of modern youth. She studied adolescent and sexual behavior in the Pacific Southwest on Samoa, Bali, New Guinea, and other islands. The Coming of Age in Samoa was the first of her 24 books. She was a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, taught at Columbia University, and was president of the World Federation for Mental Health.
In 1975, Dr. Mead and another anthropologist, Dr. Frederica Annis de Laguna, were elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. de Laguna led the first anthropological surveys in Cook Inlet, Alaska, studying the Pacific Eskimo cultures from 2000 B.C. to the present. She found and copied Eskimo rock paintings for study. She has won many awards for her work in Alaska.
Dr. Rayna Diane Green is a Cherokee Indian from Oklahoma who is the first American Indian to earn her doctorate in folklore. She has been the director of the project on Native Americans in Science, and is an author and has taught at Yale, George Washington University, University of Maryland, University of Massachusetts, University of Alaska, and Federal City College of Washington.
Dr. Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) studied rural blacks in Alabama and has written six excellent books. Her best known book is The Life and History of Blacks in Plateau, Alabama.
In July 1959, Dr. Mary Leakey found a human-type skull 1.75 million years old. She and her husband, Louis, were working a dig in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, Africa. When Louis died in 1972, she continued the work and has been joined by Richard, one of their three sons. Mary Leakey found many tools that help show human biological development, and she has become a leading authority on prehistoric development.
Problem: Archaeologist often must recreate pottery from fragments. Below is a sketch of a fragment of a bowl. What is the inside diameter in centimeters? The outside diameter in centimeters?"
