Woodland period

deceptive techniques imitates the aesthetic characteristics of the manor house documentary format, epitomised in the clichéd opening sequence with the low brass music, long shots of woodland estates scenes in an attempt to convince the viewers of its authenticity. Similarly, Swift taps into the naivety of the audience in this period of educational fervour in their willingness to believe this poplar mode of speculative pamphlets through his language of rational discourse. The full title of Swifts…

school WAS a lot different from homeschool, just like C.J. had said. We both had been homeschooled our whole lives, up until now. I didn’t know whether to be excited for the change, or nervous for the judgement I may receive. All I knew was that Woodland High could either be the best…

“Island Archaeology and the Native American Economies (2500 B.C. – A.D. 1700) of the Georgia Coast” The small islands off the East coast of North America may appear to simply be marshlands, but from an ecological and archaeological perspective they are teeming with information. Researchers are interested in whether the smaller islands were important to Native American economies before European contact, during contact, and/or after? This is one of the questions authors Victor Thompson and John…

Dingoes generally don’t have a preference on where they should live in Australia. However, they are mostly found, “woodland and grassland areas that extend to the edge of forests”…

when all data was combined. Yet habitat showed that woodland territories were smaller then territories in the plains. Woodlands habitat territory sized correlated well with the number of adult females in a pride. Yet the prides in plains had no correlation with pride size and territory size. This was surprising because it was expected to see that larger prides having larger territories, but that did not happen. This was only the case in woodland habitats; this could be from competition for…

in south central Turkey, considered one the oldest cities in the world. Catal Huyuk used to be a river civilization and gives us an insight on how people changed from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic period. Slash and Burn Farming-A farming method that involves cutting and burning in a forest or woodland to create fields called swiddens. This provided a much simpler way to make room for fields for people in the Neolithic era so they could farm. Monumental Architecture-These are very large…

In the settlement period, cattle became more populous than caprines, the reason being that having cattle gave off an aura of wealth. And wealth, of course, begets respect. Since the vikings had just entered this new, unstable climate, they hastened to herd as much cattle…

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of greatness, it was the epoch of death, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of fine dining and hope, it was the winter of disease and despair, they had everything before them, they had nothing before them. 1 “In the Early Middle Ages, the production and consumption of food were closely linked despite the presence of the market,…

Historical Fiction: Chickadee I have chosen the novel Chickadee by Louise Erdrich for the exploration assignment to address what the historical novel is able to accomplish that a conventional text of the same subject could not. Chickadee is the continuation of a story and fourth book in a series by Erdrich that began with the novel The Birchbark House that introduced a seven-year-old Ojibwe girl named Omakayas. Chickadee takes place in mid-1800 Minnesota and picks up the story with Omakayas…

The first migration into the Americas were from Native Americans also known as many different groups of Indians. The Native Americans took most of the Atlantic Seaboard area. Woodland Indians were a group which were divided based on their language into three. The first were the Algonquin Indians that stayed in the areas of Canada all the way too North Carolina. The Muskogean took over Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Lastly were the Iroquois which controlled the Great Lakes region and…