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who recently worked in Amarna, has pointed out that the city has already began to decay since excavation began. Tourism is also a considerable factor for any archaeological site, and some artifacts from nearby areas in Egypt were destroyed once tourists were allowed to explore sites. These two factors have launched a debate as to whether the site should be rebuilt, reburied, or remain untouched…

looters (Buying, Selling, Owning the past, 3). Looting in terms of archeology is when a site is illegally excavated for the purpose of selling the…

Discuss: Martin’s hypothesis of the Pleistocene Overkill states that humans were directly responsible for the extinction of the large mammals in north Eurasia and the Americas during the Late Pleistocene era. Martin observed that there is a connection between the time humans began inhabiting north Eurasia and the Americas, and the extinction of the majority of enormous mammals. The overkill hypothesis states that the predecessors of the Native Americans arrived in North America (approximately…

folded over his chest and his skull removed, with the jaw left in its place. The intentional position of the body and the removal of the skull suggests that there was some type of symbolic elements involved with the burial practice. Additionally, archaeological research has found evidence of funeral ceremonies held for the burial of a Neandertal individual (Haviland et al., 2013). Soil samples of the area around the body shows evidence that the individual had been buried with flowers placed…

Queer Theory emerged amongst gender studies in the early 1990s. Challenging the heteronormative view, queer theory disrupts normative thinking by placing emphasis on remaining gender and sex neutral within the field. This approach focuses on giving minority groups within society a voice, in turn granting power back to the marginalized. According to queer theory, identities are not fixed but rather constantly changing and individual specific. The common belief that queer theory is an approach…

Munsee Indians During in the 17th century, European colonists forced an Indian group out of their homeland. During that time, the island of Manhattes (now known as Manhattan) was sold for 60 guilders to Peter Minut. While the sale of Manhattan is well recognized throughout history, the Native people who originally resided in that area remains somewhat obscure. The Indian group that the book mainly focused on was the Munsee Indians, a subgroup of the Delawares or otherwise known as the Lenapes.…

Colonization Colonial expansion is often times credited to a countries economic gain, in regards to the development of trade routes, tributes, taxation, and a surplus of raw goods (Belcastro et al., 2007; Galaty, 2002; Hammond, 1992; Harding, 1992; Klaus et al., 2009; Larsen, 1994; Larsen et al., 2001; Schrader, 2012; Stipčević, 1977; Wilkes, 1992; Wright, 2014). Often times the lives of both the colonizers and local inhabitants were transformed during these forays into new regions (Klaus et al…

Mortuary Rituals of the Gray Site The mortuary practices examined at this site involve both primary and secondary burials, as well as a variety of post-mortem methods used in the pre-burial stages. One case of a potential cremation has been documented in the site reports. A primary burial is one where the remains are found in relative anatomical order, as the body of the deceased was interred shortly after death as the remains were still fresh. A secondary burial is therefore the opposite – the…

Ch.1 Clive Gamble’s “Settling the Earth: The Archaeology of Deep Human History,” begins with a brief discussion of a shared common ancestor amongst Africans believing this process of expansion settled the world. In addition, he provides a summary of hominins, a group we are included in with our extinct ancestors, Australopithecines, and Neanderthals (Gamble 2013: 23). As the text progressed, I began to understand the author’s notion of this first chapter. I believe this evolution of human…

the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age is best known for its precise and schematic figurines carved from the islands’ marble. The ancient Greeks noticed that they formed a circle around the sacred island of Delos, which contains one of the holiest sites to Apollo and also believed to be his birthplace. Many of the Cycladic Islands are incredibly rich in mineral resources, arguably the most important being marble. Most of the marble is from Paros and Naxos, which contained to be quarried long…