tDAR’s Educational Materials for Pottery Research and Beyond

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Expanding students' educational opportunities to explore the richness of human culture is a fundamental aspect of a well-rounded university education. While several platforms that offer general online lessons on archaeology, there is a noticeable gap in educational materials that enable students to interact with real-world datasets, images, and documents from ongoing and past archaeological projects. To address this gap, we present the Mimbres Pottery Images Digital Database Education Resources that harnesses the extensive pottery data available in the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR). This collection contains a set of lessons and associated materials for grades K-12, and college/university students. All the lessons use the Mimbres Pottery Images Digital Database (MimPIDD) to engage students in different aspects of archaeological analyses. Our long-term goal is to expand tDAR’s education collection and access to archaeological and historic preservation resources for a variety of educators, and encourage students to learn more about our shared past.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 52119