Archaeology of the Americas

This gave rise to the Coastal route theory to which Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology states, “The coastal route hypothesis is based on the idea that the first people to inhabit North America traveled by boat down the Pacific coast, living in areas of ice-free land, called refugia, along the way. They may have hunted some land animals, but they also would have fished and hunted…

your car) - it is all in the Iliad (or the Odyssey). It may seem funny to us these days that people would go to the Iliad to find out how to fix a broken chariot wheel - but things haven't changed so much. There are still people in America who think you can teach archaeology, and even genetics, from the…

The Inca Road System The Inca empire is considered by many to be the most successful empire in the history of South America. They were a people who built an empire along the west coast of South America. It flourished for about a hundred years through some of the 13th and 14th centuries until the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro conquered them. One way that they were able to progress to such an extent is through their long and advanced road system, which itself flourished in many ways. It…

The website that I chose was from a history.com because it is a reliable source and because they also have a television channel that has accurate facts that people took time into researching facts about history. You can tell that it is a reliable and accurate source for information about Pompeii because the publisher of the website is A&E Television Networks and that network actually takes time to look at facts about history and make sure they tell accurate information to their researchers…

The Georgia Southern Museum features many exhibits, from the Archaeology of Camp Lawton to The Mosasaur. The Museum is a great place in which people of all ages can go and learn about different things that relate to the area surrounding Georgia Southern University. Georgia Southern being a very diverse place, there is much to be learned about the surrounding areas. The museum is a great place for children to go and learn also, not would they be excited but I was also very excited when I walked…

establishment of legal parameters, through the intervention of international law, in order to prosecute those who committed such crimes. Anthropologists and archaeologists joined the fold in the 1980s when investigations of abuses were conducted in Latin America, a place where violations occur almost continuously (Ferllini 2008, 7). Organizations across…

Nobody Colonizes Innocently Colonialism is still affecting modern society in a more insidious manner, through neoliberalism. The same mechanisms that justified the implementation of colonialism are allowing for neoliberal practices to propagate systematic inequality in order to maintain the imperialist power dynamic. Although colonialism has formally ended, it has left a legacy of oppression that has yet to be reconciled. Even though these nations have newly attained liberty, they still remain…

Down in History The Maya civilization was one of the most dominant indigenous societies of Mesoamerica (a term used to describe Mexico and Central America before the 16th century Spanish conquest). Unlike other scattered indigenous populations of Mesoamerica, the Maya covered a wide territory of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and El Salvador. This concentration helped its people develop one of the most astonishing and unique cultures in the antique world, where the level of knowledge,…

According to the chart below the Hardaway is 12,000 years old (Office of State Archaeology). The Hardaway was a thin side notch point 1 to 2 inches long (“Hardaway Cluster”). The Hardaway has a straight blade, but their have been some found in the past with a curved blade (“Hardaway Cluster).“This point is primarily found southern Virginia…

Cahokia: A Book Critique The book Cahokia by Timothy R. Pauketat answers a question that most didn’t even know was questionable: What did early North American cities look like? The answer lies in the mounds and relics of the magnificent city of Cahokia. Pauketat explains through 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…