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belong to that of the Clovis complex populations (Waters and Stafford, 2007; Sanchex et al., 2014). However, this is debated by a number of authors who suggest there must have been human populations in the Americas before Clovis. Clovis culture archaeological sites are widely distributed around North America and are dated back to shortly after the last glacial maximum (Goebel et al, 2008). The timing of the colonisation and the geographical locus have led to the assumption that Clovis were the…

Driffield Terrace, York, England (Müldner et al. 2011; Hunter-Mann 2015). The site was excavated in 2004 to 2005 by the York Archaeological Trust, an independent archaeological organization in the U.K., with the help of researchers from the universities of York, Durham, Reading, Trinity College Dublin, and Teeside (York Archaeological Trust n.d.). Although there is also the possibility that some small parts of the site may have been disturbed in the late 19th century during building works in the…

interpreting the ideology of the myth has persisted, modern critics have thus referred to archaeological evidence in order to diminish the belief of an empty land, thus indirectly degrading the facts and narratives of the Bible in its essence. Barstad contradicts himself as he ascribes the importance of reading the Bible as a narrative rather than a historical book (2008:98) but adds his doctrine of the archaeological interpretations of these texts in Blenkinsopp’s and Lipschits’ Judah and the…

By looking at the various archaeological and historical evidence, we can determine the historical reality of the so called, Trojan War. I contend, that whilst the main source of information, Homers Iliad, is largely mythological and written not for history but for entertainment, there are still some archaeological factors suggesting there was some form of conflict between Greece and Troy. Thus, the categorisation of the Trojan war as a myth, warrants critical evaluation. I propose the reality…

environmental changes while Malpass emphasizes sociopolitical forces. As they describe the changing cultural forces of the era, Moseley utilizes a straightforward voice and often mentions specific dimensions and other numerical data pertaining to archaeological sites to support his arguments, while Malpass uses a slightly more conversational tone and often cites the work, theories, and data of other archaeologists and authors throughout his discussions of the Early Intermediate Period. Mosely’s…

Hacienda Plains Archaeological Problem Kaitlyn Barton, Jessica Elmore, Kayla Seifert The Hacienda Plain is located on the Pacific coast of Central America. Its climate is tropical with an annual rainfall of about 90 inches, the vegetation being dense jungle. Nanosec Indians are the inhabitants of the plain and live mostly in small, scattered farming communities. The Zatopec Indians live in the Zatopec Highlands to the east of the plain. The highlands rise steeply to 3,000 feet, have an…

Archaeological Examples of Possible Cannibalism White (1992) has proposed a taphonomic signature of cannibalism which consists of minimum 6 criteria. These include perimortem breakage, cut marks, burning, anvil abrasions, under-representation of vertebrae,…

feet in height and has a gateway on the eastern and western sides. This site has undergone multiple archaeological digs and investigations. The mounds within the enclosure are domed shaped mounds with the exception of one, which is in an elliptical shape. The most impressive and largest mound at the site, called the Central Mound, was measured to be approximately 19 feet in height when first recorded in the 1840s. This site, which was in use from about 200 BCE to 500 CE, is significant because…

The Comparative Study Of Hoof Print Petroglyph At Kansas Rock Art Site 14EW405 and the Ethnographic Ledger Books of the Late 19th Century Introduction The study of the rock art in North America is a vast milieu of differing peoples and times. Some areas, and traditions, are well studied, with the understanding of the people who created the works are more defined in their source. Kansas, with the exception to a few sites, is not one of those areas. With a slow trickle, the expansion of…

Center for the Study of the First Americans said that “The evidence was unequivocal,” Clovis sites, werere spread all over the continent, and “there was a clear association of the fauna with hundreds, if not thousands, of artifacts,” Goebel said. “Again and again it was the full picture.” Clovis points were first discovered in the USA in 1929 near a New Mexico town, archaeologists determined that the Clovis sites were 13,500 years old with the use of radiocarbon dating. The first Clovis points…