Archaeological site

administrative and religious matters. However, it is also a period which highlighted much of what is known today about non- royal people everyday society, as a result of archaeological evidence. This essay examines how women were depicted in everyday society, particularly drawing on how gender was represented and constructed through archaeological evidence of funerary equipment and daily life settlement. Gender itself is quite a controversial term in the 21st century, for this reason its must be…

Unfazed by the harsh Andean topography and climatic conditions, the Incas accomplished greatness, conquering people and exploiting sites in various settings such as plains, mountains, deserts, and tropical jungle. The unique architectural structures devised by the Inca empire are distinctly palpable as a display of dominance. They built robust and striking buildings wherever they triumphed…

the topics of exhibitions inside. Passing the door of main entrance, I went to the hall that lead to different exhibitions organized by topic. Maya exhibition was the most impressive one as it presents casts of massive monuments from Quirigua, a site in Guatemala. The exhibition takes place in the Rotunda Gallery. Large scale monuments and location in the central gallery attracts many visitors. The monuments have unique hieroglyphic writing about important events in the Maya history, the manes…

In The Other Greeks, Hanson suggests a similar socioeconomic model of the Hoplite reform, yet he centers his study on the object of farming land rather than the whole picture of tradeoffs between the hoplite and the agricultural activities. He concurs with Viggiano and Cartledge in that overpopulation and relative land hunger were stimuli of revolution and struggle both inside and outside the polis. Within the local affairs of the city-state, “the population pressure on limited land led to the…

research will test the null hypothesis that physical activity levels, as evidenced by osteoarthritis in human skeletons, remained constant at Epidamnus, and Apollonia, Albania during Greek colonial expansion (620 BCE-229 BCE). The assemblages for each site was first divided according to adult age groups, Young, Middle-age, and Older adult (Table 2), and sex (Table 3). In an effort to compare pre- and post-colonization the skeletal remains at Corinth and Apollonia were further divided into…

Keese, Brett GSD 4141, A-1 Fall 2015 A Brief for a Villa Though Pliny’s Laurentine villa was once a physical construction, archaeologists and historians are left with abstract and unconfirmed evidence of its composition. Before its demolition, the villa was a statement displaying Pliny’s affluent life; but now, with nothing but Pliny’s own description and questionable archeological remains, the villa simply evokes a question. Without confirmed evidence of its image, the villa takes the form of a…

local landowners, three Indian tribes, and their respective academic allies concerning the exact location of Black Kettle’s village. Efforts by the NPS to locate the Sand Creek Massacre site began in 1998 when Congress passed the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site Study Act. Predictably, as the search for the site unfolded, tribal representatives squared off with non-Indian bureaucrats and scholars over the discrepancies between written accounts and oral histories of the…

mystery. In 1911 an American historian Hiram Bingham found this ancient city and brought it under attention of international community. Now this stands as beacon of times forgotten, olden times of Inca glory. Machu Picchu is the most visited archaeological site in whole South America. In old Inca language ‘machu’ means old and ‘picchu’ means peak, so the name actually stands for old peak. The citadel is located 7970 feet…

The Piltdown hoax was an archaeological site in England in 1908 and 1912 human, ape and other mammal fossils were found together. In 1913 at a nearby site an ape's jaw with a canine tooth that was worn down like a human's. British paleontologist gad the idea that a creature that had a human cranium and an ape's jaw existed. In 1953 a Piltdown man was exposed as a forgery, the skull had in fact been modern and the teeth had been filed down. Charles Dawson was the archaeologist who brought in the…

likely used for a feasting site, an astronomical calendar, a healing ground, or even a cemetery for people of higher status. The first group, the Windmill Hill people, named after one of their earthworks on…