The topic of human remains has been argued over for many years and has resulted in multiple changes to the laws of reburial in the past sixty years‚ but now the laws are that archaeologists can have up to 3 years to research the remains until they should be reburied unless they need to extend their research. Archaeologists have always been fighting to stop reburial to have more time to research them or display them in museums whereas groups such as Neo-Druids have said that burials should never be
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of Greek Sparta‚ causing the Greeks to send an army in a thousand ships to attack and lay siege to Troy for 10 years. Historians have long doubted the credibility of Homer as a reliable historical source. However evidence has been uncovered by archaeologists to suggest that The Iliad has some basis in truth within the epic saga and that although the Trojan War occurred‚ it may not have occurred as according to Homer. Evidence such as the excavation of Hissarlik‚ Troy VI and the Hittite tablets has
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(AL) 288-1 but would be commonly called Lucy. The significance of this fossil was that it contained 40% of its skeleton thus it became one of the most complete individual to be discovered. When Lucy’s skeletal remains were first discovered‚ many archaeologists worked hard to put together all forty seven bones‚ in order to understand the physical structure and to derive many unknown answers related to habitat‚ skills and diet. But most importantly‚ her structure explains
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The argument above cites several pieces of evidence that do not form a cohesive conclusion. It states that the woven baskets currently attributed only to Palea are in not uniquely Palean but also made by the people of Lithos as well. However‚ with its current base of information‚ the argument lacks support for this conclusion and needs more specific evidence to prove its claims. One piece of evidence the archeaologists needs is proof that the Brim River proved an absolute obstacle for the members
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NEW AND OLD WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY Artifacts of the old and new world have some likeness but also have many differences. I made a visit to the Cobb Museum at Mississippi State University to analyze this for myself. When down there‚ I saw pottery‚ writing‚ tools‚ jewelry‚ and many other things from each world. I then found ten artifacts of each period that was listed in the back of my workbook on the spreadsheets and wrote descriptions of them. For the new Old World‚ I described the Moabite stone‚ Sarcophagus
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wealthy German business‚ dedicated his energy and considerable fortune to discovering the Troy Homer describes in the Iliad. By using the writings‚ Schliemann was able to locate the site of the Ancient city of Troy. Manfred Korfmann‚ a German archaeologist‚ interested in the city of Troy itself‚ set out to find out the truth about Troy through science‚ rather than using the Iliad as a guide‚ but when researching and discovering historic events in Troy‚ numerous finds matched up to Homer’s writings
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the police to report his find. There are a number of steps a forensic anthropologist must take in order to identify an unidentified body. The first step a forensic anthropologist might take to solve the case is to identify the age‚ gender‚ race‚ and height of the victim. They can do this by using clues from the bones. A forensic anthropologist might look at the ends of long bones to find the age. Another clue an anthropologist can use is the shape of the skull. They can use this to figure out the
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human nature in society and how we as a society develop and grow. Anthropologists are those people who study this nature and develop theories and such explaining how things influence the growth of a society. Anthropologists take a wide approach to understanding the different aspects of the human experience. They want to know the why’s: the reasons why things happen and work in a variety of fields and workplaces alike. Anthropologists offer a lot in terms of information regarding how people react and
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constraints can often lead to poor performance of the archaeological standards. The sizes of these sites can sometimes be as large as settlements covering acres of land. However archaeologists have now been using a surveying method that employs the use of multi-instrument geophysical scanning. Using this the archaeologist can help maintain budget and time constraints that may have been restricting progress. The Seneca settlement at (1688-1715 CE) the White Springs Site located in Geneva
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conditions and places for fossilization. Fossils which are any and all traces of a past life and fossil records are fossilized remains of organisms that lived in the past‚ and the people that look and study these remains of a past world are paleontologist‚ they are men and women who study extinct organisms based on their fossilized remains. The ways that fossils come to be are in a certain order‚ from death to deposition to fossilization then recovery. Then for individual fossils there is death
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