PHOTO GALLERY: Children learn about history of the world

March 9, 2013 | 6:34 p.m. CST

Families with young children headed to Rock Bridge High School for an educational event put on by Columbia Public Schools and faculty members from MU’s departments of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences and Anthropology.

Cameron Frye, 3, uses a brush to excavate plastic bones in a box of sand at an event about the history of the world Saturday at Rock Bridge High School. The event was hosted by the MU Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, the Department of Anthropology and Columbia Public Schools. | Hany Hawasly

Alexander Woods, an MU department of Anthropology staff member, describes to children the man-made ice age weapons at an event on history of the world Saturday at Rock Bridge High School. | Hany Hawasly

Harper Metcalf, 3, walks on a large brown paper sheet wearing dinosaur footprint shoes at an event about the history of the world at Rock Bridge High School on Saturday. | Hany Hawasly

Garrison Fisher, 9, Jackson Fisher, 6, Garrett Wilmes, 9 and Elyse Wilmes, 6, learn about evolution at an event about the history of the world at Rock Bridge High School on Saturday. | Hany Hawasly