Excavation

meat.(Brink 2011) Aboriginals utilized all parts of the bison and did not waste any, marrow contained much nutrients for daily diet. Bones are believed to be boiled due to the large quantity of boiling pits identified by archaeologists in their excavation. Furthermore, carcass materials and several metric tons of rocks were noted to have been thermally altered for cookng tools and boiling.(Brink and Dawe 2003) Archaeologists believe that boiling the bison bones was completed by using…

This venture was later abandoned but then in 1748 a farmer found traces of Pompeii beneath his vineyard. Since that time, excavations have continued around the base of Mount Vesuvius even until the present day. Archaeologists found a city frozen in a single instant of the distant past. Preserved beneath the ash and pumice were shops and taverns, a forum, streets, auditoria and…

2009). The article is split into sections, with a long discussion about the excavation of the partial hominoid skeleton that has the specimen number ARA-VP-6/500. In this section, the excavation dates of each individual specimen is discussed, along with the conditions and context data for each. Then, there is an explanation of how classification was conducted, the cranial and dental…

A great deal has been learned about early Sumerians from these excavations, yet we still lack adequate knowledge for an understanding of many aspects of Sumerian culture. We are aided somewhat by comprehensible textual materials dating to the last quarter of the third millennium, but these scarcely provide us with enough…

According to legend, in the 1600s, a dying sailor in the New England Colonies said he was one of pirate Captain William Kidd's crew. He’s the one who gave the vague location of the treasure trove. It was buried on an island east of Boston. Oak Island, in Mahone Bay on the southern coast of Nova Scotia, is east of Boston. It’s been written that a teenager accidentally discovered the money pit. Discovery of Oak Island Money Pit As legend has it, in 1795, when Daniel McGinnis was walking in the…

the Mycenaean’s is most evident when viewing their palaces, which contained endless artifacts of weapons, jewelry, and other objects made of gold, bronze, lapis lazuli, and other precious stones. Excavations conducted in Peloponnese in Southern Greece revealed the remains of a Mycenaean palace. excavations of elaborate pottery, figurines, mosaics, and sculptures revealed that the Mycenaean Civilization had a class system in place, and of course the most elaborate and valuable artifacts belonged…

(xv). The Eucharistic Dove is a work that exemplifies this relationship between “image and supernatural vision” (xv). Its meaning lies beyond the purely natural world, a mere vessel intended to function as a supernatural or holy conduit. As “an excavation of the Holy Spirit” (The MET) the Eucharistic Dove is a labor of faith, exercised through poetic ornateness. The highlighting of subjects with clarity, intent and purpose is what helped define the period’s visual sensibilities, marking the…

thousand years around 3,500 years ago. The volcanic eruption left a large caldera surrounded by ash deposits hundreds of feet deep, and its effects may have indirectly led to the collapse of the Minoan Civilization on the island of Crete. The excavations of German, Baron Hiller von Gaertingen revealed the ruins of Ancient Thera on Mesa Vouno. A small team of Hiller von Gaertringen’s collaborators investigated…

Uluburun, found off turkey is a notable example of these contributions, alongside the discoveries made off the coast of Levant, modern day Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. Without these discoveries and without the technology to preserve and fund the excavations, would we be able to access this valuable information about our past? Keeping the discipline of Maritime Archaeology in the forefront of cultural…

Hayashida and KOSUWA back to the Mongol fleet. There would be two campaigns during the years of 1994 and 1995. These campaigns were carried out with the support of the Nagasaki Prefecture and the Takashima-cho Board of Education. The main excavation site was located 150 meters off the coast of coast and had a depth of 21 meters. The previously mentioned sonar technology made by Mozai had located 4 major anomalies at the bottom of the sea floor. Three wooden anchors were found here. These three…