Carlos Museum Experience

The handling of human remains and sacred sites of prehistoric people still remains as a hunge controversial subject in the field of Anthropology. Archaeology are bounded by all kinds of laws and regulations, guidelines are strictly followed by archaeologists to ensure a legal, ethical, and professional conduct of archaeological research. Complex ethical issues arise when an archaeologist tries to excavate a prehistoric site. Archaeologists must be careful when handling Native American remains as they might violate laws if they mishandle the human remains. All these laws existed to protect the basic human rights for the Native Americans. In this paper, perspectives from both Native Americans and archaeological researchers would be discussed.

On September 2nd I took a trip to the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory in Atlanta. The museum included many art exhibits from ancient cultures around the world. Including pieces from South America, Greece, and Egypt with larger exhibits as well as African and Asian cultures with smaller exhibits.

While there are still people who do not believe in the use of cadavers or have no interest in becoming one (which is completely fine as it is simply a matter of opinion), Mary Roach shines light on all the positive impacts that cadavers can have on human life today. From bettering our safety by being used in studies for impact tests, to furthering scientific, medical and forensics research, cadavers are a necessity to our well-being and

The Selena museum is located in her hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas. Her family created the museum in her honor after her death. The museum was built in 1998 after her father received a bunch of fan mail. The museum is in the back of the recording studio her family owns. They wanted to do something in her honor with the help of her fan club sending them letters telling them they should.

This is my homework (let 's better call it 'personal research ') for this unit. I have combined my interests in archaeology and museum studies, and I have created an interdisciplinary report.

The Barona Cultural Center and Museum had the most impression upon me than the previous visited museums assigned to the class. There are a number of things that I learned from our tribal ancestors and there was also a good amount of objects that impressed me from the Barona museum. I learned that our ancestors were astronomers, they built stone markers to track the movements of the heavenly bodies. Understanding when the seasons changed helped the Barona tribe to harvest food at the right time. By the means of accurately predicting and marking the longest day in summer and the longest night in winter, when the sun is farthest from the equator, which is known as solstices, the Barona tribe was able to track the seasons and uphold cultural traditions.

The only thing in life that is one-hundred percent certain is death. Humans go through life ignoring this ultimate fate until the day they are confronted. What a civilization does with their deceased tells a lot about their culture and beliefs in an afterlife. Whether a person is cremated or the body is preserved, whether they are buried in the ground or placed in a tomb, and how their final place is decorated all show their cultures values and beliefs and what kind of person they were. At the Getty Villa museum one piece called the Sarcophagus with Scenes from the life of Achilles depicts how a Roman sarcophagus can show you their beliefs and customs.

King Richard III’s grave was found in a parking lot in Leicester, England. The grave appears to have been dug very quickly and without an opportunity to measure the body before hand. It also showed that Richard was buried without a coffin, and was just lowered into the grave that was too small for him. There wasn't any type of clothing or covering found in the grave. The way the body is arranged suggests that it was lowered feet first and head last which explains why the legs were straight, but the head was propped against one side of the grave. His hands were crossed

Walking into the Perez Art Museum was a great experience, being able to physically see all these creative art pieces was such a great feeling, especially because I am a fan of the arts. I would have to say that the most beautiful piece in the museum was the Mojo Jojo, this art piece was created by Polly Apfelbaum, born in 1955, Abington, Pennsylvania. This particular piece is made out of velvet and fabric dye of various colors, which is laid directly on the floor forming continuous circles. The other part of the circle started with dark colors and as it worked its way to the inner part of the circle the colors began to become lighter. I thought that this piece was so beautiful because of the amount of colors used and the feeling it brings as you are analyzing the art. Looking at this piece brought feelings of happiness, creativity, freedom and ambition. Some questions that came across my mind as I was visualizing this piece were: How many different colors have been used? What was the texture of the fabric? Is there a main focal area of the work?

The Great Inca Road Exhibit itself explains how vast and various landscape the Inca Empire controlled over and the indigenous people lived and are living to date lively. The exhibition hall consists of a lot of section introducing from the history of Andes before emerging of the Inca Empire to the pictures of indigenous Andean people. Since the visitors need to take a long time to look the exhibition, they could feel as if they are walking on The Qhapaq Ñan (The Great Inca Road) and the shape of the hall is like a maize and there are today’s Andes people’s lots of pictures taken at religious festival and pictures of people in traditional clothes, landscape, animals and so on. Therefore we feel that we are exploring the wide region of Andes like the ancestors of indigenous people.

Although Mitford does not admit she is against embalming directly, she is able to demonstrate her argument efficiently throughout the components of her essay, which created an excellent argumentative paper. Her use of language, powerful imagery, descriptive writing, and external documents created an immense impact in persuading her audience that violating a dead body to make it look presentable is unacceptable. Therefore, a corpse should be handled with more care and the American funeral practice should not be carried on any longer.

In 2012, archeologists began excavating beneath a Leicester car park in the hopes of finding the body of infamous king Richard III. The remains that were eventually found were later confirmed to be his, but who was Richard III and how successful was his reign? The last Yorkist king, whose death at the Battle Of Bosworth ended the Wars of the Roses, is known for the possible murder of his two young nephews- the Princes in the Tower- and his unflattering portrayal in William Shakespeare's play 'Richard III'. Born on the 2nd of October 1452 to Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, Richard had a claim to the throne though both parents, as well as a curvature of the spine (the withered arm and limp, however, are most likely fabricated).

Over the weekend, I chose to examine and analyze the Natural History Museum’s exhibit “Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt”. The exhibit contained many artifacts and visual representations of what and why Egyptians performed mummification. Whilst visually entertaining and generally informative, there did not seem to be a discussion of multiple interpretations on the significance for each object. The speculative nature of these statements coupled with an often lacking of archaeological evidence backing up these claims created more questions than answers. However, the exhibit did a great job describing and informing of the science required for the analysis as well as informative background explanations for these artifacts. With clear and concise details

Tourists from all over the world congregated around the sight like a swarm of mosquitos. German, French, Italian, Japanese, I couldn’t hear myself think over all the different conversations happening at the same time. It hardly mattered for the exhibit entrance opened and the crowd rushed in like a heard of gazelle. Sam and I walked in and there were paintings carved all along the walls chiseling a map for which we have to follow to unfold the story that is Ancient Egypt. They hieroglyphs, molded under the painting, enhancing the story, and the beauty. Aside from the paintings and the hieroglyphs are the many priceless treasures that have been revealed before us. The marvels unveiled before us quieted even the most obnoxious child screaming and running around the exhibit. The main center of attention was the sarcophagus. Expertly sculpted, this piece of art depicts the boy king better than any modern day computer could. The eyes forever open, staring into you. The crook and flail signifying the importance of the person preserved beneath the perfectly shaped resemblance of the boy king. As the mass of people moved through the exhibit there was a deathly silence that no one dared to

I went to The Art Institute of Chicago on a Thursday when it was free for Illinois resident and when there were different exhibitions going on. There was long line at the entrance near the museum at 6pm in the evening. I went alone because I thought I can have better focus on picking a good art work. I was ready to go through all the magnificent paintings for my art museum paper. As I walked through the museum, there were colorful Indian Modern art exhibited for the occasion. They were big and vibrant. The was also a special exhibition of Tarsila Do Amaral, one of the leading Latin American Modernist artist who paint like Cubism, Futurism and expressionism. Her artworks were childlike in terms of the painting style of objects and people. I was most fond of the modernist and contemporary part of the gallery with painters like Salvador Dali and Francis Bacon. I was fascinated with Salvador Dali’s Venus de Milo with Drawers. The drawers unnaturalistically located on a human body was intriguing. The depth of the human mind and subconsciousness are creatively represented by these drawers on Venus de Milo. Francis bacon’s work Figure with meat was not bad either. Figure with Meat is a disturbing depiction of Pope Innocent X sat in front of a cow carcass cut lengthways in half. (Gould) Like his other painting, the theme is dark and twisted. The carcass is included serve as a direct reminder that death will be at the end await