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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foragers. Foraging was a successful way of life. So what changed? Complex societies and civilizations sprouted and paved a whole new way of life for generations to come. Many archaeologists‚ have different theories of the origins of civilizations and many of them can be tested. Not only is it important for an archaeologist to test these theories‚ but it is also important to understand the definition of a civilization in the first place. Along with the many origin theories‚ there are many definitions
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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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folklore that they would deter from surfacing with a ceremonial dance and sacrifice of a young girl. Afterwards during a storm‚ Masaji would be killed by the collapse of his house with the only survivor being his younger brother. Consequently‚ paleontologist Dr. Kyohei leads an investigation where they come face-to-face with a gargantuan radiated monster with
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What is reflexivity‚ and why is it important in the doing of anthropology? Anthropologists research‚ observe and write in order to produce ethnographies. Though many travel to foreign locations to examine natives and exotic ethnic groups‚ others conduct ethnographic research within their own culture. However‚ is the process of ethnography essentially the same regardless of the diverse cultures anthropologists examine‚ and the use of a recording device rather than a notebook? Though there are similarities
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Vine Deloria has a very poor opinion of American anthropologists who come to the reservations. His tone in the writing is far beyond annoyance or anger and is somewhat sarcastic. He also used harsh vocabularies and connotations such as saying the Indians are a “chessman” or a “game” for the anthropologists to play with. I was unsure if he is purposely doing it just to get the public’s attention. He stated that American anthropologists only came to the reservations‚ not to learn about the Indians
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antiquity make cave paintings a sight to see. With only about 350 of them having been found so far‚ their importance to archaeology is always increasing. Incredibly old‚ they both give insight as to who and what lived in that region’s past‚ and help archaeologists learn about early painting methods. While the most well known is the Lascaux Caves‚ they are all important to understanding the history of various areas. With no written language at the time‚ this was the closest early civilizations came to putting
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Saladoid culture is a pre-columbian indigenous culture of Venezuela and the Caribbean that flourished from 500 BCE to 545 CE.[1] This culture is thought to have originated at the lower Orinoco River near the modern settlements of Saladero and Barrancas in Venezuela. Seafaring people from the lowland region of the Orinoco River of South America migrated into and established settlements in the Lesser Antilles‚ Puerto Rico‚ and Hispaniola.[1] They displaced the pre-ceramic Ortoiroid culture. As a horticultural
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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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(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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