Archaeology

Young people are vulnerable and susceptible to being persuaded to subvert traditional values and beliefs. Arguably, this idea is presented in William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973), which demonstrates a threatening force that is crippling American society. Chicago Sun-Times film critic, Roger Ebert describes this film as “a frontal assault” on spectators that exploit their feelings and leaves viewers shaken after watching (1973). Indeed, the sexual perversion and foul play to religious…

The Maya civilization flourished in Guatemala and surrounding regions during the first millennium A.D. After almost three centuries as a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second half of the 20th century, it experienced a variety of military and civilian governments, as well as a 36-year guerrilla war. In 1996, the government signed a peace agreement formally ending the internal conflict, which had left more than 200,000 people dead and had created, by some…

“An unusual kind of archeological detective work yields new insights into the spread of culture through colonial New England. It also tests the science of archaeology for accuracy” (Deetz, p. x). Deetz’s method is finding evidence and testing it to see if it’s accurate, but how are you suppose to know if it’s accurate without documents to help back it up? Even though it maps the spread of colonization, there…

misinterpretation of results and data brought back from the moon. The problem that arises through this is people are believing the wrong things for the wrong reasons. In Holtorf, Susan Richardson is quoted saying, “Given that most of the cult archaeologies have been more than adequately discredited, the ‘undecided’ option seems far from satisfactory.” This reasoning can be used to analyze the moon landing hoax as well. There is more than enough evidence countering any claims against the moon…

Jacob Ashcraft Savic ENGL 2309 10/16/2016 Tradition: It’s Who We Are It’s Who We Were What are traditions? Traditions are beliefs or behaviors passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. (Green). Traditions are what many cultures lived by since the dawn of man. It kept the people in touch with their ancestors. Things Fall Apart is a story about the fall of the protagonist, Okonkwo, and the Ibo culture and traditions. Okonwko was…

This article discusses the most common type of burial found during the Anglo Saxon period: chest burials (Atkins, 2012). Atkins specifically analyzes the chest burials structure of craftsmen wooden inclusion of metal hinged lid (2012). This specific paper focuses on the types of burial containers accompanied by the type of funeral practices and how each individual are entombed. It compares the different type of chest burial found and the technique used in creating it (Atkins, 2012). By…

Good Morning to the TED X conference, I am here to talk about one powerful person who changed our world and our way of thinking about something. A powerful person is one who changes the way we think, live, work and may change our lives physically or mentally. My powerful person is David Attenborough. David Attenborough has influenced and changed our way of thinking about our planet and its living organisms. David Attenborough has created documentaries about flora and fauna and land types. David…

I’m Over This Anthropology As anthropology goes, culture can be expanded in multiple ways. It can be considered linguistic, ethnology and archaeology but also material and non-material culture. Material culture consists of things that you can touch and are given significance in society. On the other hand, there is a non-material culture which consists of behaviours, values and beliefs, ideas language, myths, family patterns and political systems shared within a society. both are influenced by…

How does one come to understand a history that has shaped us, but have not experienced it themselves? Us as people fathom a world that we come from. We do this by using something called imaginative archaeology. It is a way of thinking about what is left of the past, about the temporality of what remains about the facts, and processes of what was. Fiction itself is a form of prose, that describes imaginary events and people. Especially in short stories or in novels. Factual evidence of history…

1. What is the Middle East like? What is it like compared to the U.S. or Europe? In The Mummy, the Middle East appears frozen in time, stuck in the time in which “the Mummy” originally lived, supposedly 3,700 years ago. The film opens on images of ancient ruins and desert landscape, and its magical qualities are also immediately established with the words of the Scroll of Thoth speaking of Amon Rah (the God of gods) and of the “magic words,” through which the mighty one will return. Not only…