Archaeology

In his essay, “Ancient History in the New World: Integrating Oral Traditions and the Archaeological Record in Deep Time,” author Roger C. Echo-Hawk argues for the integrity of indigenous oral traditions found throughout the continent. He covers primarily the Caddoan language family groups such as the Arikara and Wichita peoples. By providing multiple examples of story truths and evidence, Echo-Hawk makes a convincing argument for the importance of oral traditions as valid historical sources.…

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Woman until 2009. Because he was limited to sources from ignorant white men, O’Dell was unable to get an accurate portrayal of a Native American woman – more specifically, a Nicoleño woman. O’Dell’s sources are also heavily reliant on processual archaeology, the act of making a statement on an unknown culture based on the commonalities of other cultures around it, as in the Nicoleño people and the tribes that lived near them. A downfall to this would be trying to assume characteristics of…

Human effects on Antarctica: Change to save or Die trying Imagine sailing by the tip of lady liberty’s torch. Well, this is scheduled to happen within the next 100 years. Antarctica, one of the world’s greatest continents is facing destruction from: global warming, rising waters, pollution, and invasive species. Over the past 50 years, scientists have observed the damage done to the continent and have deemed it irreversible. Overheating has caused Antarctica’s surface area to decline and its…

which states that the cult of Mithras first appeared to the Romans through their encounter with the Cilician pirates is true, then Beck’s argument in relation to the introduction of Mithras to Rome is false. Pluarch’s account is supported through archaeology…

Transitions to a New World Cherokee ceremonial and burial rites are held very sacred and with highest of respects. The Cherokee Indians who are descendants of their sister tribe the Iroquois, lived in the southeastern parts of the United States until forced off their land and onto reservations during the mid-1800s. The Cherokees were forced to sacrifice many of their customs and rites, by the White European settlers which considered it Paganistic according to their Christian religion. Surviving…

individuals in a society or more interestingly, musical instruments and music written to express emotionally that aspect of material culture. Derived from the need of preserving such valuable elements, various disciplines evolve such as art history archaeology, historic preservation, and anthropology, folklore and museum studies. According to Lance Winn (n.d.) with respect to Foucault, “the things we make reflect our beliefs about the world; the things around us affect the way that we…

can be seen within an examination of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site Atlit Yam and through a comparison of this site and another within the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, Catal Huyuk. Burial practices are relevant as well as significant for the study of Archaeology because the dead can offer a direct link to the past and show evidence for how people once lived. This evidence can appear in countless ways, from the location and method of which the bodies were buried to the specific objects were placed in…

(Anthropology 160.02: February 3). For example the texts mentions seven motivations for why pseudoscience occurs in archaeology, one of these motivations being religion. (Feder 2014: 11). Religion can be a major contribution to pseudoscience because religion in itself could be classified as a pseudoscience depending who you asked, but that is an entirely different essay…

the film by saying “Food, Inc., is a one-sided, negative, and misleading film about the way food is produced and sold in the United States. It is a documentary about the American food system the way Raiders of the Lost Ark was a documentary about archaeology.” The chicken council has put rules and regulations on how these chickens are treated. They regulate how much space each chicken has, the antibiotics they get and the food rations. The film discusses how the chickens are never let out of…