Archaeology

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INTRODUCTION Over five thousand years old, Stonehenge is a fascinating representation of human capability at a time before widespread technology. One of the seven wonders of the medieval world, Stonehenge is among the most recognizable monuments of its era, alongside the Colosseum in Rome and the Great Wall of China. In this paper, we will discuss the people who erected the monument, why and how it was constructed, and its perceived relevance ever since. WHO WERE THE PEOPLE THAT CONSTRUCTED…

revered and desired gender, while females were the more disregarded gender, as they were forced to do mundane house work. Researchers have studied and learned how of family dynamics work throughout history, their research include but not limited to, archaeology, documents, and literature. In the year 5th century, this was no different than anywhere else in the world. But many scholars at the time decided that in their writings that they would use female characters to play the protagonist as this…

Choose one named UK vertebrate species that has ‘done well’ in recent years and one that has not. Compare and contrast the conservation issues for each. What are the proposed solutions for the declining species? Introduction The temperate climate of Great Britain provides habitats for a relatively small fraction of the world’s wildlife. Of the vertebrate groups, Britain’s freshwater fish are likely to be the most threatened (Reid et al., 2013). A significant responsibility for this is due to…

Survival is essential to human species. Environment is essential to the survival and development of humans, especially early humans, since they relied on their living environment, and their ability of withstanding natural disaster was significantly lower than modern humans. Once there was a great change of climate, they had to change their living strategies to adapt to the environment, including the transformation from being nomads to cultivating primitive crops. Because of this, agriculture…

Written by Morgan Pitelka, Spectacular Accumulation is a book that centers around material culture in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century Japan, covering the changes and continuities from medieval society to the early modern era through looking into famous objects that essentially shape the period. Illustrated with colorful pictures of objects, including potteries, swords and paintings, instead of utilizing only textual representation, Pitelka emphasizes on the importance of…

Denham discusses three viewpoints, “farming/lanugage dispersal hypothesis,” “the concept of ‘low-level food production’ and “post-processual’ turn to study early agriculture” (Denham, 2007, 1). The first, idea, proposed by Peter Bellwood and Colin Renfrew explores the concept of how language and tribes were identified and formed through food production, and especially in how food was domesticated. Through demic expansion, former hunter/gatherer languages and genes are replaced, adapted or…

Differences between Human Hairs and Animal Hairs Once determining that the fibrous evidence is a hair, our next step is on how to distinguish the feature differences between a human hair and an animal hair as shown in Table 8 (Sapp, 2004). (33 words) Animal Hair Coronal Spinous Human Hair Imbricate Table 8. Feature Differences between Human…

the discovery of the Oseberg ship-burial carvings from the early 9th century and the carved decoration of the Urnes Stave Church from what is thought to come from the late 11th century. As told by Graham-Campbell (Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology at University College, London): "These remarkable survivals allow us to form at least an impression of what we are missing from original corpus of Viking art, although wooden fragments and small-scale carvings in other materials (such as…

Iconography: Iconography is the practice of perceiving a visual work for more than what it is plainly seen as. Through different lenses a viewer can assume more deeper meanings about the artwork. These assumptions can be related to many areas such as: time period, how it relates to literature, social classes, culture, values, and the relationship between the artist and his/her subject. An example of how we learned, as a class, to use iconography was with our observation of Jan Van Eyck’s…