Archeology .
This is an interesting topic to me because not to long before I got the assignment I saw the movie Timeline with my friend Collin. In this movie there were a lot of archaeological things happening. I thought that was interesting because it is amazing how people can find little artifacts and determine how important they are. The movie was a good example on how technology, such as computers, are valuable to archaeology. Archaeology started back in the 1700's when some people would just search around the land and find little objects. Then in the 1800's archaeology became its own field of study. In the 1900's they started developing new ideas and tools to use, and now computers are one of the most recent things archaeologists will use, as a man named Hester stated in an article. The importance of archaeology is the findings and what they mean. With the findings archaeologists have gathered, really good information has been able to uncover ancient things that help with the studies of today.
Computers are used for excavation in the measurement of artifacts, also for systematic analysis. This all means that the measurement of artifacts is being able to find an artifact and then enter into the computer then find everything about it. Systematic analysis is when the computer software breaks down an object and can tell what is in it and if it is important or not based on what the computer uncovers. When archaeologists use computers they make less mistakes, practically none. The most popular item used in archaeology is the microcomputer. It is used as a database to record artifacts and photography. This is stated from a reporter named Melymuka. .
According to an archaeologist, Ostling, one of the biggest stories in archaeology at the time is the Dead Sea Scrolls. Archaeologists found scrolls that have ties to the bible and seem to be important.
Timeline by Michael Crichton is a book about a group of archeological students who get the chance to not only study the past but experience it first hand. Edward Johnston, a professor of history that is leading a group of graduate students on an archeological dig on a medieval site in France. ITC, the company that sponsors the archeological site, summons him to the states to meet with them. ...
While archeology is the study of past human cultures by materialistic remains, linguistic anthropology is the study of human communication, including its origins, history, and variations. Two major areas of archeology are prehistoric, which follows the past of humans before written documentation, and historical, which covers the particular human past in societies that have recorded knowledge. ... We can study a group of people from any part of the world and categorize them through biological, archeological/linguistic, and cultural means. ...
RELIGION Since archeology aimed at the Minoans has produced only ruins and remains of their culture people studying them can only guess at what there religious practices might have been. ... One of the most interesting archeological findings in the Minoan culture was the discovery that the Minoans buried their dead in pottery jars. ...
These mysterious lines have grabbed the attention of the archeological community, as well as the public. ... In this paper, I will use archeological data, ethnographic accounts, and historical information to determine the origins of Nazca Lines. ... Because the origins of the lines remain unclear, theories such as the Ancient Astronaut Theory have greatly contributed to the fields of pseudo-archeology and mainstream media. ... Yet, once again, one major theory that is more widely accepted in the academic archeological society is from Johan Reinhard. ... (Roel 26) The Nazca beliefs are shown by...
In this term paper I will be taking about a few of its branches like Primatology, Human behavioral ecology, and bio archeology. Abstract This paper explores three published articles in which they talk about the origins of archeology focusing on individuals and institutions considering the histories of ideas, leading them to neglecting significant events. Fagan describes the origins of archeology in a more detailed manner and situates individuals within larger context. ...
Pastore backs up his argument mainly using archeological evidence. ... Again evidence of this has been unearthed at various archeological sites in Notre Dame bay and Trinity bay. ... Pastore again backs this up with evidence of archeological sites where spruce root was used instead of caribou sinew was used to repair clothing. ...
The ancient settlers were known as the Clovis people, named after an archeological find in Clovis, New Mexico (Boyle: 2000). ... Researchers at Oregon State University have developed techniques for analyzing ancient DNA from hair samples found at archeological sites (Boyle: 2000). The hair is carbon dated which can give the researchers a powerful new tool to link genetic diversity to the archeological record. ... The caostal-entry theory has an attractive advantage over other theories because it gives reasonable support to the linguistic and archeological evidence that suggests earlier and mor...
But recently a new type of archeology has raised, that being the "New Archeology". ... Through the methods of the "new archeology", new ideas were conveyed by Finklestein and Silberman. ... Also, they have more careful archeological techniques (such as carbon 14 dating) and with the idea of pottery style A in layer B of site C. ...