Forensic archaeology

Many people commonly associate archaeology with Indiana Jones, a risk taking adventurer who seeks distant lands to gather treasure. Booby traps and aggressive natives also concord with this instinctive fantasy. This is often not at all the case. Archaeologists are attributed to have curiosity, passion, determination and critical thinking skills. They take an unknown area of history and think to ask questions that no one has ever attempted to answer. How an archaeologist excavates an…

within the present and past societies (Smith, 2009, p. 35). Anthropology has several branches or is divided into several specialties. Archaeology is one of the several branches of anthropology (Smith, 2009, p. 35). It is the study of the past human activity through critical analysis and recovery of the materials the human used. This paper will focus more on the archaeology with a specific reference to the Waikiki Beach. Background of the Archaeological Site Waikiki Beach is natural beach…

To fully understand the concept of rock art one must strip away all of the different and complex meanings placed on the word art by people of European descent. The European idea of art, art for art’s sake, or art whose only purpose is to please the eye, does not always apply to rock art. In many ways rock art is pleasing to the eye, and many tourists are attracted to it for that purpose. However, much rock art is used for a specific purpose or was made during a specific period of time and means…

layers of tree trunks, stones and other materials and had been inhabited till around the early 14th century. To understand more about the past societies that built and used this site I am going to look at methods used in landscape archaeology, environmental archaeology and geoarchaeology such as pollen and soil studies, LIDAR, Excavating and methods of Remote sensing. I will show how we use these methods to find out which would the most suitable to learn about the past environment that the…

Today, in Egypt, we are left with the ruins of art and architecture. The pyramids, sphinxes, and tombs were torn apart by the later Egyptian Dynasties and destroyed by looters. Some of the loss of artifacts this have to do with time, earthquakes, and past looters, but the biggest culprits, that many do not think of first, are the early Egyptologists. It was all about getting the biggest and most impressive objects and not really about the importance of the object in context to the area. Because…

In case one, Crawford submitted his archaeology project through a crowdfunding company and soon received the amount that he asked for. After completing his project, several of his investors wanted a share of the profits. Mr. John Manley, one of the investors, requested a letter to explain Crawford’s intentions. Crawford should explain to Mr. Manley that commercialization of his new found artifacts are ethically wrong and these artifacts are public property. To sell the artifacts that Crawford…

The cave of Chauvet may be the most important discovery of cave work ever. Some historians believe that the Cave may possibly some of the oldest cave art know to the world. The cave is very beautiful and historical and it is very important to the study of cave art. The cave was discover on the eighteenth of December, Nineteen Ninety Four. The cave was accidently discovered when Jean-Marie Chauvet and his two other speleologists friends were wondering around the Ardèche Valley, in southern France…

archaeological based theories — that conflict with one another— have risen, trying to explain the collapse of the Rapa Nui civilization. Hysterically, the lack of evidence has also brought out a significant amount conspiracy theories and fraudulent archaeology that have no scientific background or bases for discussion, and therefore, the comic relief of Ancient Aliens and Erich von Däniken will not be included in this discussion. Nevertheless, the theories, that will be discussed, concerning…

The disciplinary approach is necessary in order to studying the Vikings’ form of living based on the type of sources they left to us. Many of these sources are difficult to understand because were written in different languages. Also, some of the evidence come from people that states they had a close relationship with them. In other words, these evidences are not totally reliable, which means is necessary to examine them carefully to get concrete answers. As time passed, thanks to the…

There are also other archeologists like Hormuzd Rassam, who dug up landscapes. Also Robert Coldeway and Walter Andrae. They spent years reconstructing Babylon with mud-brick foundations. The westerners didn’t believe that there was a historical truth to the scriptures. But the early archeologists wrote of the biblical legends coming true. That clay tablets with cuneiform and kings that conquered the ancient land of Mesopotamia were real. Archeologists also showed that the Babylonians and…