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“Two 6th and 7th century cemetaries are located east of England, at Sutton Hoo. In one of the cemetaries there is an untouched ship that has a huge amount of Anglo-Saxon artifacts of magnificent history of art and archeological findings. These findings are currently found in the British Museum in London. The cemetaries are in the care of the National Trust. (Wikipedia) The trust of these things are usually given to Museum's so that they can be cherished forever. Sutton Hoo is of historical…

(e.g. Lachish letters). Ostraca were sometimes used in placing a vote, as in the ballots discovered at Masada.” Historically, this dig brings additional confirmation of Yadin’s life-goals in a country he loved and served and one of the national sites of great national importance was Masada. Price writes, “Masada was a mountain fortress next to the Dead Sea built by Herod the Great as a last refuge for troubled times.” Price continues as he writes, “it included northern and Southern Palaces,…

the world, in which its breathtaking beauty and stunning architecture make it an ideal tourist attraction. Machu Picchu is an Incan cultural and natural site that is dubbed one of the most gorgeous places on Earth. Machu Picchu is also surrounded by mysteries which have yet to be discovered. In addition, Machu Picchu is a rich archaeological site. According to “Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu” by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), “…the Historic…

000 people over 2000 years ago, is one of the most fascinating archaeological sites to be investigated in modern times. As a result of a volcanic disaster, (the massive eruption of nearby Mt. Vesuvius), the city…

Additional archaeological evidence exists that the Taltheilei tradition made caches at treeline and on the…

everyday people and life. Archaeologists must rely on the archaeological record and ethnographic analogy to understand ancient life for the common Israelite and Judahite. In regard to their religious practices, the Hebrew Bible does not fully agree on what the people worshipped. Small clay figurines, like the Judean pillar figurines, which possibly depicted the goddess Asherah, were located within houses at several sites across the Levant. One site has an unusual centaur figurine, likely…

superstitious, and sought supernatural powers for assistance in the outcome of the chariot race by inscribing curses on lead tablets against their opponents (296). The infamous chariot race, as evidenced by archaeological finds, reveals hundreds of defixiones found around the event sites or grave sites in Rome (Futrell 203). The defixiones contained a specific curse against a charioteer or…

The Watson Blake site is nearly 2,000 years older than the site at Poverty Point, which is also located in Northern Louisiana. There are more than 100 regional sites associating with the Poverty Point culture of the Late Archaic period. These cultures regularly interacted with each other and had a regional trading network that connected to…

Article Analysis Two 1) In ‘The Destruction, Looting and Traffic of the Archaeological Heritage of Peru,’ author Walter Alva focuses on the mining and looting of ancient sites which leads to the destruction of many artifacts present. He also touches on the damage done to the archival record by removing the artifacts from their original context and sending them away to collectors or foreign museums. Alva works towards drawing attention to how collectors and museums play a large part in…

the archaeological record to provide the answers regarding the past. He highly relies on the archaeological record (ceramic styles, design) to determine information on identity, politics and interrelationships between the St. Lawrence Iroquoians and Huron-Wendat people. Opinions in Place of Conclusions: These are unsupported assertions which Gibbon (2014) suggests are opinions. Therefore, the following are opinions asserted in place of conclusions: ¬ Ramsden (2016:6) suggests that his…