Archaeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, and cultural landscapes. Also, archeology Archaeology is the study of the ancient and recent human past through material remains. It...
Today, forensic archaeology is considered a well-established and reliable sub-discipline of Physical Anthropology, and can be defined as the application of archaeological techniques and principles relating to the search, recovery and excavation of human and faunal remains, buried evidence and even missing persons; that aids...
Archaeological Theories and Methods According to Lord George Gordon Byron (1821), “The best prophet of the future is the past.” For as long as humans have existed, we have been curious about our ancestors and their conduct. While historians can provide educated deductions about the...
Much of ancient Greek sculpture is known only through Roman copies, with these types now filtered for us through subsequent millennia of reception, particularly since the Renaissance, so it is fitting that we now view these classical forms through over a century of star bodies...
Isaac Newton once said “The only reason I have seen further is by standing on shoulders of giants.” He implied that our technological improvements and advancements did not happen overnight, but started from the ancient times and were improved by us. Mesopotamia was the place...
The collaboration of both archaeology and oral traditions can yield an understanding of ancient North America that scientific findings may struggle to produce alone, yet unfortunately, scholars still contest the historicity of verbal literature. Echo-Hawk asserts the necessity to combine the two to achieve not...
The article I chose to write about is Residue analysis of smoking pipe fragments from the Feltus archaeological site. In this article, archaeologist conducted research and testing on the residue of six smoking pipes found at the Feltus site located in the Lower Mississippi River...
The 2018 moa extinction case study combines archived oral records, chronological dating, and bird archaeological data to uncover human perception of megafaunal extinction events in Aotearoa. Wehi, Cox, Roa, and Whaanga analyse whakataukī or Māori ancestral sayings that provide glimpses into the island’s early extinction...
Back in the 1960’s, the hydrologist Robert Raikes and the archaeologist George Dales independently, then jointly, put forth theories for the seasonal flooding, or more precisely the seasonal “ponding,” of Mohenjo Daro and some smaller sites nearby in Sind. Each scholar felt able to hypothesize,...
