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    Cave paintings were the first forms of art. These paintings first appeared around 31‚000 years ago. The oldest one known is in the El Castillo cave in Spain. This is not a very well-known cave‚ even though I think it should be. The Chauvet‚ Altamira‚ and Lascaux are the most common caves. Cave art is very interesting and has created multiple theories. The first theory of the purpose of this new outburst was just a way to be decorative. I don’t think that is the sole reason for

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    Avery Bell Coach Askren Physical Science Honors December 11‚ 2012 The Truth about Anesthesiology Anesthetics have been around for over a hundred years. The first ever recorded use of an anesthetic was during the time of the Incas. Shamans drilled holes in the heads of their patients while holding chewed up cocoa leaves over the patient’s mouth and nose. This ritual was believed to set free your bad spirits through the holes and the cocoa leaves provided you comfort while returning back to

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    Their interactions with the indigenous people and land were fueled by their desires to have a colonial enterprise‚ hence conducted in an exploitative way. Having desired to convert the land into plantations‚ and the indigenous people to Christianity‚ they forced the natives to labor. Due to how proprietorial they were‚ the Spanish divided and modified the land arbitrarily‚ creating colonial mines as they desired and forced the natives to work on them‚ or bear slave raids instead. From the 16th century

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    Justine Hertwig HIS 416 Exam 1 How did the arrival of the Europeans alter the environment of Native Americans? Documentation and oral history help historians piece together the past. We know when and who arrived in early America‚ but we don’t have the most detailed idea of what the now United States actually looked like because technology was at a bare minimum. Columbus arrived in1492 and reported vast empty lands ripe for the taking. If America was properly surveyed at that time‚ Columbus

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    During “Kanduli” singing‚ women playing bamboo zithers‚ homemade flutes play; a large basket is brought to center by two young men; remaining family members line up with their own small basket of rice saved from ritual plot/mixed with spices; the shaman stands by basket as rice is poured into a blend of rice family has; there is a short speech welcoming spirits; then main basket placed in water at the river; then removed and cooked with chicken/egg put in tubes offered in the spirit. The abundance

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    eclectic and syncretic • Three Teachings (Sanjiao)-form • Popular religions o Animism ▪ Hayokpe ▪ Kashin ▪ Butterfly Mother ▪ Shinto o Shamanism ▪ Shaman

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    WHICH CULTURE IS FOR YOU? Anthropology is the study of humankind everywhere‚ throughout time‚ seeks to produce reliable knowledge about people and their behavior‚ both about what makes them different and what they all share in common. The next few pages will share with you some simple facts about two cultures that are very much different‚ and are separated by a span of ocean water. These two groups of people are the Yanomamo people of Brazil and the Swazi of South Africa. INTRODUCTION

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    “wedge shaped” this was difficult to learn because in included several hundreds of sings and in China they had the use of the oracle bones which lead to the use of the symbols to the actual language in china the shamans would heat and crack bones and whatever form they fell into the shamans read it and interpret it and would tell you what might happened in your life Another use of writing in china was the development of philosophy and religion with the Confucianism‚ which are values and beliefs

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    In the Great Plains‚ a herd of buffalo peacefully lumbers by‚ when‚ suddenly‚ men wielding spears and bows galloped forward on horses‚ shouting their war cries. Naturally‚ the buffalo try to escape from the hunters only to run into another group of bellowing Indians. Within minutes‚ all of the buffalo are slaughtered‚ except for the few who got away. The Kiowa Indians were renown for their skills in hunting‚ their ferocity in battle‚ and their alliance with the Crow Indians (Ryan 9). The Kiowa tribe

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    to forty members. Having small nomadic groups allows us to hunt and gather evenly across the society. To help obtain food for my family we rely on a spiritual force called shaman. Soon enough the food supply begins to decrease and it is time to migrate. We do not plant‚ we only gather and hunt what is given to us by the shaman. While living in our society and especially migrating it is hard for our young members of the society to survive. About half of the members are able to survive the conditions

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