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blogspot.com INTRODUCTION TO “Understanding the Bible” In this study of “Understanding the Bible” we will cover many areas about the Bible, some of which are as following: The importance of the Bible, Islamic view of the Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, archaeological discoveries that back up the Bible, Organs of the Bible, Authenticity of the Bible, Earliest MSS, the canon and some non canonical books, How to use exegesis and avoid eisegesis, the role of the scribes, languages of the Bible, Biblical…

First City / Document E). These items show that they believe in the afterlife and by them having them buried with them shows that they want to take it with them to the afterlife. The third area of the Cahokian life that can be explored from the archaeological evidence is how complex their social life was organized, but also fun at the same time. For example, people in the lower classes would be outside the walls because they were more vulnerable and then the elite class got to be protected in…

of the Maya elite. According to Webster, J.E.S Thompson was the man who really pushed the theory of the peasant revolts. Thompson uses the buildings as his primary evidence to support this theory. In order to build anything labor is required. Maya sites are littered with temples and often times the Maya would build over existing structures. All of the monumental works in the Maya region had to be built “using human muscle and without the benefit of metal tools or complex machines” (Webster…

Did Salmon Rule? Enquiring when intensive storage and sedentism began on the Northwest Coast Introduction Background Namu, located in the traditional territory of the Heiltsuk Nation on the central coast of British Columbia is an archaeological obscurity, as no one can be sure of the actual time frame of intensive storage and sedimentation occurrences. On the Northwest Coast "salmon remains, the representation of cranial elements versus vertebrae, mass capture technology and storage…

it made between Britain and South- Asia. In every civilized community there are two industries which are the oldest and most fundamental of all textiles and pottery. (Fraser G, 1948:3) The earliest textiles were made at Mohenjo-Daro, an archaeological site of the third millennium BC on the Indus River. A woven and madder- dyed cotton fragments were found wrapped round a silver pot which is preserved by metallic salts which impregnated the cloth (Barnard N. & Gillow J., 1991: 41). India sent…

extensive detail, the experiences of others, and by presenting questions to the reader just how this city came to be and how it faded out. Pauketat portrays information in a clear and precise way by using exact examples from real life anthropology sites. One particular example is when he describes the game Chunkey: “...one of the players would throw a disk-shaped stone about the size of a modern hockey puck...a few paces into the yard would, about at the same time, chuck their playing sticks…

a tiresome routine. On hot sands workers dragged the largest granite blocks on wooden sleds weighing as much as seventy tons to build the pyramids. Egypt formed a huge agricultural empire, though all the production was done by hand. Recent archaeological site of the graves of pyramid workers show that some of the workers were missing limbs or had damaged…

its counterparts in the west survived for a lot more time than the Harrapan civilization, it is considered to be a technological advanced and a prosperous rule. Although we are yet to decipher the language of the Harrapans we do have a lot of archaeological evidence to support our claims. We can infer a lot from the ruins of the buildings at that time and other evidence. The foremost thing that distinguishes a settlement from a civilization is the construction of buildings. Buildings that are…

groups that were greatly affected by this were Navajos and Hopis. Fisher states “Navajos and Hopis were living were found to be sitting on the largest coal deposit in the country. . . Since then the sacred land has been devastated, ancient archaeological and burial sites have been destroyed, thousands of Navajos have been displaced, surface ground water have been contaminated” (Fisher 63). As a result, the mining company destroyed sacred land that Navajos and Hopis preserved. More importantly,…

These attractions are varied, and in less developed areas, they might include traditional religious practices, handicrafts or cultural performances” as defined by World Tourism Organisation. The range of cultural tourism activities includes archaeological sites, museums, castles, palaces, historical buildings, famous buildings, ruins, art, sculpture, crafts, galleries, festivals, events, music and dance, folk arts, theatre, primitive cultures, subcultures, ethnic communities, churches,…