Using this resource, students determine what artifacts are, how they are discovered, and what information can be learned from them. Students may know very general things about people: what they need to live and that they live in families and communities. Learning about artifacts will expand on the basics. For instance, people need food to live, and by studying artifacts we can learn about what foods people ate long ago, as well as how they ate them. Artifacts can also give insight to behavior, and students may discover clues to how that community operated. They can use their own experiences to compare and contrast how other communities lived. (author/kct)