Archaeology

Weksler-Bdolah, Shlomit, and Alexander Onn. “Modi’in: Hometown of the Maccabees.” Biblical Archaeology Review 40:02 (2014): On-line. The authors begin with explaining that Modi’in is the hometown of the famous Maccabee family and the author Alexander Onn passed before this article was released. An important part of Jewish history lies with the Maccabee family as they were the ones who led the Jewish revolt which is celebrated with the festival of Hanukkah. Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah…

Over the course of years Forensic Anthropology and Biology has coincided with the criminal court system, and has had the ability to help face dangerous individuals with justice and to find these individuals guilty. Forensic Biology is defined as the application of science where the process of identifying badly decomposed, skeletal, or that of unidentified human remains is done. Forensic Anthropology is defined as the application of science that involves the physical anthropology to the criminal…

The experience of a pilot or their confidence in the years can be described as significant factors concerns but not of more weight than aviation safety when it comes to flying. It is important that the industry player, stake holders and concerned parties have an understanding and the application of aviation safety policies and practices which is key to the safety of the passengers, civilian and the plane itself. There can be a significant decrease in accidents, injuries and deaths from aero…

Your eyes are the door to your soul”, there many poems with these phrase, many believe that to trust someone you just must look into their eyes, and maybe that is truth. But to know from where someone came from, how they live and how they died, their eyes will not help because when we died they close forever, and in that moment when not even our faces are recognizable the truth about ourselves lies in our bones. People often think that our bones are not more than a part of our bodies that help…

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated with forensic science and I distinctly remember my brother and I running home from the bus stop every day, when we were in middle school, just so we would not miss the introductory scene of the new Criminal Minds episode. The show always began right at 3 and our bus got to the stop roughly around 2:55; just enough time to run home and turn it to the right channel. And as any fan of Criminal Minds knows, the beginning is the most captivating…

Introduction Forensic anthropologists use the skeletal system to identify remains through different methods. In this paper, I will discuss stature and sex primarily in regards to the elements and methods that can be used to determine them, along with the circumstance of their use and the debates surrounding their use. In regards to stature sex determination, different methods have been used in biological anthropology including morphological, statistical, and metric analysis. Each of these…

century most people cared more about providing for their family rather than retaining a piece of history but we can see how important it is for cultures to have something to revert to when explaining their heritage. Thus the study of pre-conquest archaeology played a tremendous…

underpinnings, 3. Discuss issues relevant to the nature, aims, and practice of ethnoarchaeology. She begins her article with an explanation of ethnoarchaeology’s beginnings. Born from American Western expansion, it originated as a form of salvage archaeology and gained academic credence in the 70s. Stark identifies areas of the world where this is a great deal of potential and attention, like the work being carried out in parts…

The aviation accident investigations concentrate on improving safety. The reviews of the scientific and technical developments that have remained the driving force for the enhancing safety have gone beyond the scale of the present undertaking. Earlier legislations concentrated on aircraft impact on the ground and not safety on board. The first air regulation took place on 23 April 1784 (Bibel 23). The regulation prohibited balloons frying without a special license. The regulation gave the…

There is a consistent debate on whether humans came to the New World through the coastal route or the continental route. For both sides there is an abundant amount of compelling evidence for one to come up with their own conclusion. There are a variety of arguments for where the migration came from like: Asia, Europe, or Beringia. The Asia argument asserts the first migrants came from Siberia, the Solutrean hypothesis argues that people came from Europe (Oppenheimer et al,. 2014). In Beringia…