Kathleen M. Kenyon 's Life

When we think of prehistoric things they may think of things of the past, but with the breakthrough unearthing of the Kennewick Man transformed peoples thought of prehistoric existences. The Kennewick Man or “The Ancient Man” is the name given to the skeletal remains of a man found in Kennewick, Washington on July 28,1996. A pair of bystanders accidentally found the skeleton remains of the Kennewick Man. With the discovery it has brought up many disagreements about what to do with the Kennewick man. The question now is who is really responsible for the remains of the Kennewick Man.

Kennewick Man is one of the most complete ancient skeletons found to date. The discovery initiated scholarly and public debate of the legal and ethical implications of anthropological study of Native American human remains. The Kennewick Man controversy has called into question the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)’s ability to balance tribal, museum, and archaeological interest in ancient human remains.

The museum believes in a pastiche and populist pathway, in which the history of all people is displayed. Its interactive viewpoint allows this museum to convey history in a way that would be more accessible to its audience. For example, patrons are given the opportunity to record their own history. However, academics, such as Keith Windschuttle, assert that the NMA is a “profound intellectual waste”. He argues that although it displays accurate history, it’s purpose of entertaining its audience detracts from its value, thus creating “waste”. Although Windschuttle’s view may be extreme, it demonstrates the considerable extent to which the tension between academic and popular historians exist.

When considering excavation methods, the location of the site has to be taken into account, as many archaeological methodologies can cause long-term damage to the site. So considering conservation strategies and methods is crucial. This directly applies to New Kinord, as the

On July 28, 1996, two young men discovered a skull of a man, which was exposed by erosion, on the bank of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. The police were called to investigate and that was when the rest of the skeleton was found. This skeleton was soon named “Kennewick Man,” although the Native American Indians referred to the skeleton as “The Ancient One.” According to the Smithsonian’s top physical anthropologist, Doug Owsley, this was one of America’s most important skeletons. It was an exceptionally rare discovery and for its age, it was one of the most complete skeletons ever found. Scientists said it could provide an extraordinary insight into America’s early inhabitants. Doug Owsley says that Kennewick Man is causing scientists to rethink how humans first came to this continent. After a long process of both controversy and scientific research, conclusions were eventually made about the Ancient One about who he was and where he came from.

When I visited the Koorie Heritage Trust, I found their large collection of 2600 artifacts most intriguing because the Trust had been collecting these artifacts ever since the year 1985. The collection consists of various items across time, the oldest being stone tools such as grinding stones and axes, and newer items were also there such as t-shirts and jewelry. Furthermore, my favorite item in the collection was the eel trap, which was an example of the survival of the Koori culture as well as their knowledge. Gunditjmara elder, Aunty Connie Hart, made the trap in 1988. The Gunditjmara being an Indigenous group from Western Victoria, where Gunditj means ‘belonging to’ and mara means ‘person’. And the major role of the collection is to show

The University of Washington, Seattle is a renowned institution with an extensive research facility placed at the disposal in conjunction with the Burke memorial museum. The imperative scientific “necessity” for further research of the remains has placed the museum as an institution in the wake of a highly controversial set of issues. The university has the initiative to perpetuate the sciences conducive to the study of anthropology, providing educational biases. The requests made on the behalf of the Native communities has a true claim to the respectful treatment of said human remains that is directly conflicting with the claims the scientific community has proclaimed. The definitions of respectful treatment are disputant amongst the two groups and continue to place the Burke Museum in the middle ground of a severe conflict. The university and the museum have taken the situation as an opportunity to educate the public to a degree, launching a section on the museum’s web cite that chronicles the displacement of “Kennewick Man”.

Judy Chicago’s feminist artistic career ironically began with minimalist styled art. Minimalist art is defined by the Tate (a highly respected institution in London that runs 4 separate museums) as “an extreme form of abstract art developed in the USA in the 1960s and typified by artworks composed of simple geometric shapes based on the square and the rectangle”. Its essence is best condensed by artist Frank Stella when he describes his minimalist paintings as “What you see is what you see”. Judy Chicago was trained as a minimalist artist and she explains in a lecture she gave at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach, California that “during the first decade of my career I experienced two forms of censorship the first was self-censorship

Some of the more remarkable archaeological discoveries in the 20th century were made by Dame Kathleen Kenyon. Kathleen Kenyon was born into the heart of the English scholarly community and with all the help that influence and connections could provide became one of the foremost excavators in Great Britain. Even though Miss Kenyon was purported to be a Christian, she did not argue for the biblical account

Kate Bosse was born in 1910 in Germany. Her interest in history, archaeology, and Egyptology was kindled in Melanchthon School in Wittenberg. She went on to study these in university. In 1935 she was awarded a doctorate for a thesis on the human figure in Egyptian sculptures. She then was appointed a post at a museum in Berlin, but as it was the late ‘30s and her mother was Jewish, she suffered. Bosse’s mother and two brothers were taken to concentration camps in 1944, after her father’s medical clinic was shut down because he refused to divorce his Jewish wide. Kate escaped persecution by fleeing to Scotland. There, she became assistant to Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, who was a famous biologist, mathematician and classical scholar, She then

A group of us Arts and Music students used the day on Wednesday to go into the city to visit the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It was a cold, breezy day so we were all bundled up in jackets and hats. As we got off the E train and walked toward the museum, its appearance was not what I expected it to be. The museum was an elegant, beautiful building made of what looked to be marble; not the big, brick monstrosity I had expected. Once we walked into the museum, it was even more elegant on the inside. The marble staircase had sculptures on each side leading up to the rotunda where white Christmas lights were strung around the banister in decoration for the Christmas season.

What a blessing I had today to experience in my own eyes wonderful sights and scenes. Many of you already know that I 'm famous for the mystical experiences I’ve had with Jesus and God in the past. Perhaps you’ve read my book? The Book of Margery Kempe? Yes, I Margery Kemp, got the opportunity to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. There 's over thousands of beautiful artwork, one visit won 't suffice. I was captivated by everything I saw, but I was especially drawn into the magnificent gallery number 305.

Their mind has been embedded their cultures and values. Katherine Watson (Julia Robert) has an extremely eccentric identity she excitedly acknowledged the offer to teach art history at one of the most renowned college for ladies. She’s a really contemporary female, particularly for the 1950’s. She brought her California style to the college and it is incredible enthusiastic about each of the arts as well as the students.

In the article The arena of imaginings: Sarah Bartmann and the ethics of representation, Rosemarie Buikema looks into the controversy around Willie Bester’s statue of Sarah Baartman. The statue, made by a South African artist, was put in the library of the University of Cape Town’s Science and Engineering Department. To my surprise, the exhibition of the statue in a Science and Engineering Department

After getting over my initial reluctance, I got butterflies in my stomach. This was only the 2nd time I’d been to an art museum, so I wanted to make the most of it. When we first arrived, we looked around at some paintings. I visited an exclusive temporary exhibit of Edvard Munch which included a surprising amount of paintings of naked women. Nothing caught my eye in the first few galleries, but then I stumbled on an exhibit called “In Character” by Nam June Paik. As soon as I walked in, I got embarrassingly excited. I constantly had to stop myself from running around the museum like a madman. All the TV sculptures and simple, childlike drawings had been just so incredible to me. The piece that I really enjoyed the most was a sculpture called “Self-Portrait.”