The Aztecs had a distinct social structure that consisted of nobles‚ commoners‚ and slaves. Nobles were priests‚ lords‚ and military leaders. Commoners included merchants‚ farmers‚ and artisans. Slaves‚ the lowest class‚ worked for the nobles. Archaeologists can use texts from ancient peoples‚ which included short accounts written on murals‚
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more than 1‚000 years ago” . Heather starts of by talking about how in the days lights that’s on the Peruvian coast neighbours homegrown archaeologist Milosz Giersz and Roberto Pimental Nita unravel a small closed chambers near the opening of an ancient long tomb. In three years of surveying this site called El Castillo de Huarmey Giersz the main archaeologist has ran upon a chain of death from piles on top of piles of insect that are fed upon past human flesh to snakes that died at the bottom of
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piece of machinery in Lindow Moss in Cheshire England. Through evidence‚ and after a visual examination and scientific investigation‚ archaeologists and historians have been able to draw conclusions about Lindow Man’s life and death. Lindow man was an example of a bog body as he was found in a marshy area. After close visual examination of Lindow Man‚ archaeologists can conclude that Lindow Man was aged 25-30 years and at his peak of his physical condition‚ he had ginger hair and a short rimmed moustache
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Three specific cases where the study of human remains has led to an insight into the persons life are the Ice man‚ Lindow man‚ and Tollund man. Finding the site is the first step which involves chance finds where archaeologists come across the remains
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the ruins of buildings‚ and human artifacts; items such as tools‚ pottery‚ and jewelry. From their studies‚ archaeologists attempt to reconstruct past ways of life. In this class we discussed and learned about the evolution of human being culture living in Greece and the surrounding Aegean Islands through the Paleolithic Age up until the Late Bronze Age. We got to see how archaeologists learn about the past through the study of material remains and how the different remains help us to understand
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Written By Emma Byrne The Siberian Ice Maiden is a 2400 year old mummy from Siberia‚ whose preserved corpse was discovered by Archaeologists excavating in the Altai Mountains‚ near the Chinese border. The Ice Maiden was discovered in 1993 during a process of a dig led by Natalya Polosmak‚ of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The archaeologists proved to be extremely lucky in the finding of the Ice Maiden as they nearly missed the tomb. Polosmak and her team were lead to
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Problems with Josephus’ account include that he had a one sided view of the Romans‚ he was not an eyewitness‚ and the how his event conflicts with the evidence found at Masada. Archaeological evidence found at the sight was excavated by patriot archaeologists who sought to propagate and create an identity for their young nation‚ thus making the dig with a one sided view. Finally‚ through analysing modern historian‚ Nachmann ben Yehuda’s interpretations of Josephus’ account and the archaeological remains
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One of these theories explains that the Philippines was once inhabited by the Tabon men who resembled the Java men and who lived about 250‚000 years ago. These people lived in caves and used stones as tools for gathering food. A famous American archaeologist‚ three waves of people came to the Philippines from the Asian peninsula. These were the Aetas‚ Indonesians and Malays. The Aetas The Aetas or Negritoes were the first group of people who came to the Philippines through the land bridges. They
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2010 TARA – THE TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ART AFRICAN ROCK ART TOUR GUIDE TRAINING MODULE Introduction Africa has the greatest variety and some of the oldest rock art on earth. With a total of between 10 and 20 million images spread across 30 countries‚ Africa has by far more rock art than any other continent. The importance of rock art as a medium for studying early cultures and beliefs as well as early morality and the development of imagination cannot be overstated. The art
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title of the fairest of them all and ruthless demi-gods capable of changing the fate of a war in his story the ‘Iliad’‚ are all nice stories yet they can’t actually be proven. But what evidence do we have that could support these mythical legends? Archaeologists such as Calvert‚ Schliemann‚ Dorpfeld‚ Korfmann and historians such as Thucydides have established some provable ground for the Trojan War. Written sources suggesting the Trojan War is real are in scarce amounts‚ the main source is Homers ‘Iliad’
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