Excavation

Pompeii was a flourishing city. In AD 79, Mt. Vesuvius erupted trapping thousands in the city under ash and lava; preserving the city for approximately 1700 years. Pompeii was one of the largest cities that was buried by Mount Vesuvius. Since then, excavations have begun and the city of Pompeii began to deteriorate. Currently, the big debate is on whether to discover Pompeii or preserve it. Several things come into play, involving financial issues, the historical perspective and the educational…

ask? Well what about its artificial man-made beach, or its triangle-shaped forest, or even better, Nolan’s cross which is a natural formation of boulders forming a cross. But the biggest mystery of Oak Island is the infamous “Money Pit”. Past Excavations It was said that in 1795 a teenager saw strange lights coming from an island off the shore from his parents’ house. He then went to the island to investigate and he saw a large depression on the ground and a tree hanging over it with a…

constructed, Chevelon Pueblo is the third largest, and although the groups flourished, they were eventually abandoned. The main goal at this site is to determine why the site became abandoned in the first place. To gather the information needed, excavation strategies must be selected. From earlier discoveries, it has been found that the Pueblo was constructed in three major episodes in the 13th and 14th centuries AD. The pueblo consists of two large room blocks atop a hill and this surrounds a…

Ann St. which require clean-up and removal prior to us being able to advance our residential re-development proposal. Our Agreement with you requires that prior to us advancing clean-up of the site, that we provide you with notice in advance of excavation to allow you the opportunity to retain a third party engineer to evaluate our findings and our proposed remediation program. Please accept this letter as the required formal notice. Our consultant, Trafalgar Environmental, has conducted…

During the period of French control the excavation methodology became more organised. By 1860 much of the western part of the town had been excavated. Giuseppe Fiorelli directed the excavation from 1863 to 1875. He excavated the houses first from the ground up to preserve the artifacts. Four men continued Fiorelli’s work. At about 1910, Vittorio Spinazzola uncovered…

The first artifact that the archaologists and forensic anthropologists would find is my basketball. This artifact could be found in my house since it is meant for indoor use. It may still be intact concidering the fact that it is a very good-quality ball. It is very important to me because I had to spend $40 dollars of my own money on it. It is also important because it is an NBA game ball replica, meaning that that is the same type of ball that they use in the NBA. Plus, when I’m bored I can…

In the ancient world, the Trojan War was a widely regarded and alluded event. The great city of Troy, the king Priam, the heroes Achilles and Odysseus, the lover Paris, and Helen of Troy were characters that ancient Greeks and Romans revered, and ones that captivate society today. The events of the Trojan War are laid out in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, as well as in other numerous historical and poetic works such as the Aeneid of Virgil. Hence, the existence of the city of Troy and of the Trojan…

Ancient Egypt is known for a lot of things: amazing jewelry, government, irrigation, etc. Most well known, however, are their monuments and temples that have become recent excavation sites. The Valley of Kings is known for its staggering size, with sixty-three tombs placed inside for major royal figures. With its excavation beginning in 1884, the Luxor Temple is globally known as one of the great achievements of ancient Egypt. The pyramids of Giza also help to understand the culture of ancient…

archaeologists also died after they discovered the pharaoh's tomb. All of them had different reasons for their deaths, but all of those incidents, strung together by news reporters, made the headlines as one of the best article topics. The sponsor of the excavation, Lord Carnarvon, also died shortly, and people naturally connected it to the curse. It has also been rumored that a city-wide blackout within Cairo occurred the split second of his…

1. Introduction: “Two thousand years ago there was a major break in the economic and social world of southern Africa. Domestic animals and pottery were introduced for the first time into an environment of hunter-gatherers. There is considerable debate on the origin and spread of domestic animals on the subcontinent, but no argument that they have arrived from the north” Quoted by Cummings et al. 2014:484). According to Mountain (2003:40) the Khoekhoen have been regarded as the ethnographic…