Sunday, November 16, 2025
10 am. – 5 p.m.
This event is in the past.
Learn about ancient technologies, identify animal bones, sort shells, watch a flintknapping (stone tool making) demonstration, and more!
Find out more about archaeology techniques from Burke archaeologists and event partners as they share tabletop activities, and stories about artifacts and belongings.
Ed will demonstrate the construction of nettle fiber duck and gill nets. He will also make split cedar limb/root fish traps, shrimp traps, and/or eel traps.
Did you know that archaeologists don’t study fossils?! Learn about ancient technologies, identify animal bones, sort shells, watch a stone tool making demonstration. Talk to Burke archaeologists and event partners as they share tabletop activities, stories about artifacts, and belongings at our museum-wide Archaeology Family Day.
To earn your November Fossil Finders passport stamp, visit the Fossil Finders booth on Floor 3 to talk with Burke paleontologists and educators about the differences between archaeology and paleontology and learn about extinct Ice Age animals that lived alongside humans!
The Duwamish Tribe
Edmonds College
Environmental Science Associates
Equinox Research and Consulting Inc.
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
King County
The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe
Perteet Inc.
The Puyallup Tribe of Indians
The Tulalip Tribes
Willamette Cultural Resources Associates, LTD
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