Archaeology

Author Report The author of my book is Kirsten Miller. Kirsten Miller was raised in North Carolina. Her home was a small town in the mountains. When she turned seventeen she left her mountain home and moved to the big city of New York. Kirsten still lives in the city of New York to this day (“Kirsten Miller”). “As far as I’m concerned, no one’s invented a magical realm that’s any more fascinating than New York City” (Kirsten Miller). Kirsten receives a lot of inspiration from the everyday life…

“Nazis”, another word for terror which refreshes all the wounds in the history of humanity. Everyone in the world connect Nazis to holocaust which is absolutely true, but they aren’t aware of all the steps they took in order to reach to that position where they can get enough trust of people who will not fight back against them. Well, we all know that it didn’t work out well for them and ended up losing their lives as well. Nazis was a group made of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and some…

ability to incorporate medieval history and archaeology in her crime and mystery novels. The historical facts used to illustrate Kate’s novels enrich their plots providing readers not only with the excitement of solving mysteries, but also with interesting facts about the medieval times. The Wesley Peterson series is an example of her mystery and history blend. It is an exciting series of eighteen crime novels in which she follows the path of the archaeology graduate police detective Wesley…

The ongoing conflict in our world that has led to the destruction and theft of ancient artefacts is a reality that the ‘Syria: Ancient History-Modern Conflict’ exhibit, housed in the Ian Potter Museum, endeavours to raise awareness about. This small exhibit, currently located on the museum’s first floor presents rescued artefacts from excavated sites conducted by the University of Melbourne that surrounded the Euphrates River, including Tell Ahmar and Jebel Khalid. These domestic and religious…

what was true such as the thunder bombs and what is unlikely such as the 300 foot Chinese Junks of myth. Underwater Archaeology as we saw at the Takashima site is essential because we live in a world that is majority ocean and one where the sea has served to connect us all. We have traded through the sea, migrated through the sea, and fought through the sea. Underwater archaeology is also essential because the ocean…

In 1832, Greece became an independent kingdom under the protection of the Great Powers after decades of fighting for emancipation from Ottoman rule (Kokkinidou and Nikolaidou 2004:156–157). Greece was in a unique position to receive support from Britain, France, and Russia due to their past as a great civilization in Classical times. In fact, the Great Powers saw Greece’s fight against the Ottomans as a war between civilization and barbarism. Some even went so far as to view it as a continuation…

However, while there are parallels, it is imperative to understand that not all aspects of the text and archaeology line up. Regardless, the Archaeological process of theories consists of three ranges; the low range theories, dealing with the transformation of materials from the systemic context to the archaeological record, the middle range theories, dealing…

I deeply enjoyed the open-minded approach that anthropologists were prone to utilize when learning about different peoples and cultures. Moreover, the fact that archaeology used physical remains in order to reconstruct past lifeways was much more satisfying that the “he said, she said” of today’s history books; modern archaeologist seem to operate on the notion that people from all time zones were still human beings…

Abhiram Mulam Ms. Toney English I 23 January 2017 O. J. (2013, July 16). Ancient Troy: The City & the Legend. Retrieved January 28, 2017, from http://www.livescience.com/38191-ancient-troy.html Troy was an actual city located northwest Turkey which was identified by many as being the Troy in Homer’s Iliad. Whether the Trojan War was fought between the Greeks and the Trojans, and the city in northwest Turkey is the same Troy would be a debate. The Turkish name for this city is Hissarlik. In the…

Archaeology is defined as the study of humanity and its past, carried out by examining material remains such skeletons etc. (Jarus, 2014). An important task in examining human remains is establishing time since death; this is useful for proving whether the individual being examined is ancient and of archaeological interest or of forensic relevance. Radiocarbon dating is a technique commonly used by scientists and archaeologists to establish the ages and times since death for ancient human…