Games and Educational Links
Not all archaeaology has to be about serious research and dry bones!
Try some of BAJRs recomended games and educational resources, including some of my own (who can forget Beat the Digger!!), some are more... er ... shall we say educational than others!
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Educational Archaeology Games
Hunt
the Ancestor (BBC) 
Time and money are running out and the developer's diggers are
wanting to move onto the site of a dig. Experience some of the realities
of being an archaeologist by playing Hunt the Ancestor. 
Viking
Quest (BBC) 
Play the game of 'Viking Quest', which takes you back to AD 793. Can
you build a ship, cross the seas, loot a monastery and return home to
claim your prize? Your chief has set the challenge, it's up to you to
respond.
Time
Detectives (C4) 
Click the link to Time Detectives on the left menu ... try and
excavate the site before the developers move in... too muck like the
real thing!!
PastExplorers
(PAS)
This is the Portable Antiquities Scheme's website for children
and teachers. - Fun, Facts, Games and more.
DigDown(Jeffco)
Flash Archaeology Game that is quite complex, but does give you a real
feel of what is involved in field archaeology, with usign the righ tools,
recording the finds, drawing and more... a real educational tool...
and fun too!
Learning
Zone (Wessex Archaeology) 
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More educational and not that much in the way of fun... but still worth
a shot! A range of games and downloads from matching pot sherds to putting
toold in a diggers wheelbarrow... I did
not know we did not use toothbrushes ;-)
Escape
to Segedunum (Tyne and Wear Museum)
Fight your way back to the Roman fort in this little Flash Game. A bit
basic, but still fun.
Run
from the Roundheads (Worcester City Museums)
Can you help Charles II escape with his life? You'll have to be quick.
Royal
Heads and Tails (Worcester City Museums)
Flip over coins to match the name of the King or Queen with the years
that they reigned. Very addictive.
Costume
Cavalcade (Worcester City Museums)
Try and dress the model with a matching set of clothes. Simple, but educational
BAJR Games & Other Fun
Beat
the Digger
This Guardian reviewed hit (geddit!!) is a real favourite - stop the
Digger from having a quick ciggie... keep him in the trench with your
mouse clicks
(if only life was this easy!!)
Excavate!
Dig it - excavate through 4 layers to find five pots on each level...
just don't break one! And learn about stratigraphy at the same time.
- A real classic in the making!
Chariot
Race!
Watch the odds, choose the team bet your hard earned denarii and then
race... a fun game - so simple, but great.!
Mosaic
Hangman
The latest FLASH game from BAJR... hangman... but with a heritage twist...
fun and informative
ArchaeoConcentration
Back due to popular demand... test your memory in this popular game.
Spear
Toss
Simple but so addictive... Flash Game .. throw that spear with the little
guy!!
Badger,
Badger, Badger.....
Strangely hypnotic Flash song about a some Badgers, a mushroom and ....
hey just go there and be entertained!
Mummy-maze
Search the tombs and outwit the Mummy in this brain-busting puzzle game!
Patoli - Aztec ludo
Hyper addictive game (download in Zip format) if you fear anything then
scan it with a Virus Checker- I have and it is clean)
Time
Team Drinking game (Sheffield)
A game that gives you a good reason to get drunk and argue about archaeology!
- (only for adults!!)