Obsidian

The Yurok tribe lived in the northwest cone of what today is California. Some of its people lived in villages along 45 miles of the Lower Klamath River. The tribe was one of three tribes – Karok, Tolowa, and Yurok. Yurok territory also ran along the Pacific Coast from Little River in the north, to Trinidad Bay in the south, in addition on the tribe’s inland territory along the Klamath River. Today the land would be in the northern part of Humboldt County and continue north though much of what is…

indigenous group to which my family referred to is the Aztecs, and this was my first time I read about my ancestors’ theory on their creation. According to the suggested website, the Aztecs believed that their Goddess, Coatlique, was impregnated by an obsidian knife and gave birth to the goddess of the moon and a group of male offspring which became the stars. Their goddess also gave birth to the fiery god of war which later destroyed his brothers and sister. According to the Aztecs, the world…

call it a “creature” was a compliment, for what came out could only be described as the essence of all dread and evil rolled up into a single entity. Its entire body was covered in deep-blood scales with dark-crimson. On top of its head, were thick obsidian horns that curled in random tangents. But perhaps its most offsetting feature was its smile. Its pearly white grin looked at Hans like a lion who had just found its new prey, ready to rip it up into a bloody-mangled mess. But then he suddenly…

energy by working on personal problems that involve no one else. Getting your various bodies to work smoothly together for the same goals. Colors: Black, White, Silver Herbs and plants: Basil, Majoram, Nuts, Seeds Stones: Hematite quartz snowflake obsidian Element: Air February Other Names: Storm Moon rowan moon ice moon Wild Moon quickening moon ice moon Hunger Moon Snow Moon…

that it was looters trench that led to the best finds in the history Mayan Archeology. The discoveries were shown in National Geographic. Murals and paintings were 56 square feet in size. One of the much famous found labeled was an “Older Brother Obsidian”. “ This was a calculator, so to speak, for calendar priest or a Maya astronomer to calculate moon ages,” (source…

Gruesome sacrifices were completely normal to the Maya people, sacrifices to them would be like singing a hymn at church to everybody now. The Maya's religion was a very unique and gory religion that had little to no logic or reason. That's not all to the Maya people, they were an extremely intelligent race achieved many intellectual milestones, and made their on original religion. All early Maya life was based on maize farming or corn (Perl 17). Most early Maya were purely agricultural…

Once upon a war Archeologists have recently uncovered evidence of what may be the oldest known incident of warfare among humans. Dating back to around 10,000 years ago, the remains found on the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya are also significant because they belong to a hunter-gatherer society rather than to settled agricultural peoples. Archeologists and anthropologists have long believed that because hunter-gatherer societies are relatively egalitarian, they are also less violent. The…

sticks were used for hunting and fishing, but later man started using flint and the head of the spear, flint never had to be sharpened as the it could be flaked off, and those flakes were naturally razor sharp, but fragile. Later came the use of obsidian, the sharpest material on the planet, it micro bevel width was as small as 2 nanometers, that’s small enough to sever molecules themselves in the skin. And in some countries it is still used as scalpels in hospitals. Later Steel became the main…

In his book The Origin of Humankind, Richard Leakey is convinced that the images depicted in Paleolithic art reflect more than their everyday diet, or environment. Paintings of chimera-like creatures are evidence that these paintings are “greatly mediated by cognitive reflection” (Leakey 109). Leakey’s most interesting attempt to uncover exactly what these drawings represent is when he explores the idea that Paleolithic paintings represent hallucinations. The author relates Paleolithic art to…

The Maya, Inca and Aztecs all had trade routes to trade for new things, a good army and warriors to protect them and a useful location that has affected them in many good ways. The Maya, Inca and Aztecs all had successful civilizations. All three civilizations had many things that made them successful. All three civilization used a method called trading. They all traded to get new things or things that they needed. The Maya traded salt, cotton, mantels, slaves, feather, flint, chert, jade,…