Obsidian

Geology The Field of Geology didn’t become a major field until World war II, when the sea floor was mapped out in detail for submarines revealing a mid-Atlantic underwater mountain range, and a rift which started the theory of Plate Tectonics. Plate tectonics are used to explain the forming of mountains and even continents after the Pangaea. Plate tectonics explains that continents could have broken up, but there are 2 major theories on how. Catastrophist’s believe that a series of catastrophes…

“The God’s Script,” by Jorge Luis Borges, is revealing the structure of knowledge through a dream of Tzinacán, the central character, and the narration presence of the jaguar. Borges wrote the short text story to describe Tzinacán’s dream. Tzinacán is a magician of the pyramid of Qaholom. He is strong minded with many hardships. Obstacles come and go, but Tzinacán will never lose hope. Dreams reveal knowledge of things that can come to reality. In the short story, Borges is trying to say the…

Art is constantly changing. Styles come in and out of favor, subject matter old and new are painted and explored, and new techniques are developed. One major development and new technique that vastly changed art was the use of linear perspective during 15th Century Italy. As with any new technique, the use of linear perspective took a while to advance and become the mathematically based depth cue that people now know it as. In the beginning, it was simply the slight convergence of lines, not…

Before reading The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area by Malcolm Margolin, I never knew about the Ohlone. I did not even know much about Native Americans. While reading the book, I feel like I was watching a movie. The author describes the Ohlone as if he was there. I could picture an Ohlone man inside a sweathouse, a group of women grinding acorns, a dancing shaman treating the sick, a boy trying to catch a rabbit, or a chief welcoming the traders. This is the most…

The evidence of this trade is based off of the fact that in the common Mayan households all held “obsidian in the form of prismatic blades, macro blades and scrapers, jade axes, polychrome ceramics, seashells, presumably salt, and hematite pigment cylinders” (Sheets 2000:219) that have not been as widely accessible to Mayan commoners throughout Mayan…

The advancement of Aztecan society is known as one of the most magnificent developments in history. In the words of the column, “Aztec Culture and Society,” this group’s rise to power is one of the most remarkable. Originating from a land classified as Aztlan— or better translated as the White Land (History.com Staff, 2009)— the Aztecs began as a simple system of peoples. Historians believe they were possibly nomadic, traveling from the northern valleys. Their conditions were explicitly scarce.…

Archaeological Anthropology Question 1: First Appearances of Religion When we think of religion, we often are reminded or churches or temples, morality, and an all-powerful, all-knowing, and benevolent being often referred to as a God, Goddess, or in some forms of recent religions, multitudes of the formers. As cited by the Oxford Dictionary there is one common definition of religion which is the “The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.”…

his jewelled emerald eyes. It is an Irish name, composed of the Gaelic dubh “black” and laoch “champion”, meaning Dooley loosely translates into “Black Champion”. Honestly, the name doesn’t quite fit him perfectly. “Dubh” describes his permanent obsidian coloured fur tuxedo and perhaps his dark sense of humour, like when he decides to scratch and destroy door frames in the house to get my attention. His mind is as razor-sharp as his claws (most of the time). “Laoch” is Gaelic for “champion”,…

it! We ended up keeping two of the kittens: Lucky, and Co-Co. The only thing that Lucky does in her spare time is sleep, eat, and snuggle! I love Lucky because she 's my cat and she is very important to me. If you are wondering, Lucky is kind of a obsidian, ghostly color. Also, her eyes are as green as an emerald. Co-Co, which I decided to not put in this story, is a bronze, bloodless, and ebony cat! So, that 's it for Lucky the…

I spend a lot of my time and energy in worrying about survival. 6. My life is full of stress. 7. Security is the most important thing to me. Worries about survival and feeling desperate reflect feelings about the general insecurity surrounding physical existence, as does the feeling that life is stressful. 8. Physical existence is just something we have to suffer in order to reach a higher plane. If you checked off two or more of the above statements, you probably have some degree of…