Field Archaeology Research Paper

Artifacts, they aren’t valuable because they give you lots of money or because it belonged to royalty, artifact are valuable for what they represent. They hold a history of the person who owned, some are more special than others. Some artifacts represent a generation and tell a story about them. A compass could represent the generation of the Age of Exploration, a shield with a red cross could represent the generation of the crusades, but what represents our generation? If I were to choose artifacts to put into a time capsule, that would represent my generation, I would choose a smartphone, a CD, and a videogame controller.

He could see, through his excavations, that there were separate groups of humans that he came across and therefore the phrases urban and industrial revolution came about. Childe didn’t merely describe and correlate the culture sequences he attempted to account for their origin as well (Renfrew and Bahn, 2012:36). Not only could Childe notice different cultures but “in 1942, Childe used the distribution of tombs on Rousay to estimate the size and distribution of population on this Scottish island during the Neolithic period (Trigger, 2006:376),” and later on whilst he was excavating at sites such as Skara Brae the “analysis of the community and the estimation of population size became much easier (Renfrew and Bahn, 2012:190).” Throughout his life “as early as 1925, Childe had employed a functional view of culture to facilitate his culture-historical analysis (Trigger, 2006:397),” this concept of culture –historical approach is still being considered and thought about in archaeology today. “During the years of 1928 and 1957 Childe revolutionised specific words relating to the past. These terms became important, not just for archaeologists but also historians and more importantly the public. This terminology that was introduced allowed for clear stages that can be seen throughout the chronological timeline of the past (Greene, 1999:97).” These words such as, urban

Have you ever wondered about what food people ate living 10,000-12,000 years ago. We know very little about what the Neolithic tribe ate. The main food we know that they ate is yogurt,noodles,cheese and a special ancient seed that is so rare to find anywhere is called Millet. These food were really hard to make back then. Today these products get packed and made by machines so it is really easy to make. The products that the Neolithic tribe made 10,000 years ago was more natural and healthy than the food we make. In today's food they use put in more fat and use put chemicals in the food. Unlike the food back then which was so fresh like cookies right out the oven. The Chinese were the first ones to create and improve the noodles. Also the first clues to make cheese came from the Neolithic era.Yogurt helps lactose people because they can eat it unlike other foods. I think that the development of food was really important.

The region goes all the way up to Canada, it includes the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. They lived between 8 B.C. to 800 A.D.. Burial Mounds hold corpses, treasure, and other valuables. If a chief dies all if his belongings go in the mound with him. Woodland Indian tribes lived near streams, lakes, and rivers. They live near them because if they didn’t they wouldn’t have water or food. They lived east of the plains. A few of their tribes are the Iroquois, Mound Builders, Algonquian, Shawnee and some Woodland tribes. All of these tribes travel with stitched bark Canoe or they walk. They lived along the Atlantic Coast and were the first region that was able to contact the Europeans. The Eastern Woodlands mainly spoke Iroquoian and Algonquian.

Finding an arrowhead is a dream every child has held at one time or another. The ones who hold that dream the longest become archaeologists. Studying the lithic material from a site can seem tedious and dull, but the information that can be gleaned from it is invaluable. The type of lithic material can provide insight into the lifestyle, tool production, trading habits, and a possible time period of habitation. We aimed to discover some of this information from the items recovered during the two weeks of excavation at the East Carolina University Summer Ventures Archaeological Field Methods class.

In Reading the Past, Ian Hodder argues that Processual, or New, Archaeology is flawed and that we must look at approaches used before its adoption and integrate parts of those approaches into the study of archaeology. He points out that Symbols in Action helped him to develop three ideas regarding how to do this. First, we must consider that material culture has meaning. Second, that the individual is important to the development of theory in archaeology; and finally that archaeology is most closely related to history and should consider that in its approach.

Cultural artifacts should be returned back to their region of origin because of their value to the people of that region, the culture behind the artifact, and it keeps the artifact more safe from being stolen. If a cultural artifact was returned to its region of origin, the people of that region would still see a high value in that artifact. The culture behind the artifact is important, because if that artifact was taken away, it’s basically taking away the culture of that artifact. When a cultural artifact is being transported, it is more than likely to be stolen, as well as lose its value.

It was on january 17 ,1997 when a family moved to a dark and mysterious town called Tombstone Town. The sky was a pitch-black and a 11 year-old girl named Lesley was looking for her pajamas in a dark shadow room. She yelled “mom I can’t find my pajamas”. They are in your sister’s room in the third box.

Archaeologists have dedicated their lives to unearthing artifacts. When an artifact is found, it should not be relocated in an art gallery, museum or any other public viewing institution. There are several reasons for this, including destroying historical sites, not allowing citizens being able to see their countries history, and the fact that the artifacts may pose as family memorials for their ancestors. Yes, it is true that ancient artifacts to many people mean more than just objects. In fact, they are quite out of the ordinary to some.

The media has a big impact on today’s generation due to its accessibility. Anyone could pick up a book from the library, stroll along to the movies, or simply go on the web to search for relevant information happening in today’s world. Archaeology is widely used in several forms of media such as books, comics, television series, movies, and the news. While the media exposes and educates its audience, can their information be trusted? Although the goal of some news outlets such as Fox News and CNN is to provide relevant information to their audience, how accurate are those information? In this paper, we will examine how archaeology is represented in several news outlets such as Fox News, New York Times, CNN and NBC News, and if the information

The Houston Museum of Natural Science features Trilobites from the Middle Devonian, which were found in Silica Shale in Lucas County of Ohio. This particular genus of trilobites, “Eldredgeops milleri,” have large eyes containing a separately set lenses without a common cornea. Its thorax has 11 segments. Trilobites are some of the earliest known arthropods. Since these particular trilobites had good vision, I imagine that they were one of the few genus of trilobites that were either predators or scavengers. They were benthic bottom ocean filter feeders.

On May 9th, 2016, the Boston University Archaeology Department held a public outreach event called, “Eating Archaeology”, where guests were served foods from four different time periods and places: Bronze-age Mycenae, Bronze-age China, Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, specifically the Aztecs, and mid-19th century Boston. The creation of these dishes was made possible through analyzing archaeological sites through the lens of the newly popularized sub-field, archaeology of the senses, which studies how the materiality of the world contributes to and is influenced by how humans use their senses (Hamilakis 4). Through analyzing the bodily senses, archaeologists can create a more detailed interpretation of the experiences of ancient humans (Hamilakis i). This new interest in the sensory aspect of human culture brings a fascination with the types of foods that people consumed in the past. With this in mind, a group of graduate students in the fields of archaeology, food history, and gastronomy, at Boston University, collaborated to test if material remains can be used to recreate ancient recipes. Through eating these foods, one can glimpse a part of the culture that ate the dish, illustrating the power of taste, and demonstrating that archaeology can be used to create something tangible for the public. This paper will focus on the research process for the mid-19th century brothel site, located in Boston, and how the materials gathered during excavation were used to reconstruct the

Throughout history seemingly unrelated objects or ideas can be brought together and connected in the most extraordinary ways. Many philosophers believe that everything in the world is connected and intertwined in some way, shape, or form. These principles can be applied to many subjects including archaeology. The scene of Ajax on the Francois krater can be linked to Polyklietos’s Doryphoros by applying them both to the fundamentals of evolution.

Antiquarianism eightieth century changed the intellectual interpretation of the past and the present. The excavations brought about the conventional antiquities, such as statues and medals, but also theaters, temples, houses, streets, shops, soldiers’ quarters, country residences, a school, a library, chairs, utensils, clothes, ornaments and even food (Rao 2007). Instead of learning from literacy, the scholars could learn from the materialization of the past, no longer accepting literacy as an absolute, irrefutable and reliability truth. (Rao 2007) and pointed the direction to experimental science (Fittipaldi

According to the article, “Ancient rocks record first evidence for photosynthesis that made oxygen” from Sciencedaily.com, rocks found on the ocean floor 3.2 billion years ago contain oxygen. This is currently the earliest known example of photosynthesis by living organisms. The most probable reason the oxygen was liberated in the rock is cyanobacteria, primitive photosynthetic organism that lived the ocean. The rocks they are studying, jasper, is made up of iron oxide and quartz show striations caused by composition changes in the sediment. The scientists running this research measured iron isotopes with a mass spectrometer, which determined how much oxygen was needed to form the iron oxides. Studies of uranium and its decay products confirmed the iron results.can only be dissolved in its oxidized form so the uranium in the sediment had to have more oxygen in order for it to solidify in the way it did.