Archaeology Lessons Through Board Games Offered at Buyeo Elementary Schools

"Visiting: I Am Also an Archaeologist" Program Runs Until November 5

The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Buyeo National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, announced on September 15 that it will run the "Visiting: I Am Also an Archaeologist" program in collaboration with the Buyeo Office of Education in Chungcheongnam-do until November 5.

'Memory of the Land' Game Teaching Materials / National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage.

This program allows students to learn the core concepts of archaeological excavation through board games and to indirectly experience judgment calls encountered at actual excavation sites. It aims to help elementary school students in Buyeo County understand the value of their region’s buried cultural heritage and explore career paths in archaeology.

There are two games. "Memory of the Land" is a logic-based memory game that teaches the law of stratigraphic superposition—the principle that older soil layers are found deeper underground and represent traces of the more distant past. Using forty artifact cards and forty quiz cards, students learn to deduce the order in which artifacts are unearthed from different soil layers and understand their chronological relationships.

"Archaeologist's Excavation Journal" deals with situational judgment at real-life excavation sites. Utilizing a game mat, sixty artifact cards, and eighty-two situation cards, students can indirectly experience the role of archaeologists and develop their problem-solving skills in fieldwork scenarios.

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