Philippine Artifacts

The Paiute tribe lived in southern Utah and in southern Nevada. The Paiute tribe lived in the California-Intermountain range.

Human beings, desire to maintain a connection with the past is achieved through the languages spoken, the various cultures practiced, and sadly through acquiring of cultural property by the means of grave robbing. Native Americans wanted justice for these past mistreatments and control over their history. According to Chip Colwell, campaigning, repatriation of indigenous artifacts began in the 1960s by indigenous activism. Finally, on November 16, 1990, The United States Government passed The Native American Graves Protection and Reparation Act. NAGPRA summarizes that museums must conduct an inventory of all native American cultural artifacts and remains. (Native) In addition, Museums send the inventories to federally recognized tribes, in

In the 7th Century AD, an important individual was buried inside a ship in East Anglia. The ship most likely hauled up from the nearby river, a burial chamber was built in the center of the massive vessel. Luckily grave robbers did not reach the ship burial as they did other nearby burial mounds, because the ship was rich in history and artifacts including gold, silver, bowls, spoons, weapons, drinking horns and much more. Originally discovered in 1939, the artifacts and ship burial have been closely examined another 2 times. The artifacts found within the magnificent burial site have created a lot of stir over the past 80 years. Theories have changed on the significance and origins of the artifacts due to changing hypothesis or the arrival of new and different evidence. Because there are dozens of artifacts within Sutton Hoo, this paper will be focusing on a select four of them including; the ‘baptismal’ spoons, the Merovingian coin hoard, the whetstone, and the scepter. According to scholars over the past 80 years, how have opinions, evidence, or assumptions changed relating to these exact artifacts? This paper will be taking a contemporary look at the perspectives of different scholars on different artifacts and, finally, analyze why these perspectives have shifted or changed over time. To my knowledge, scholars do give credit to previous perspectives, but no scholar has every brought all the perspectives together and analyzed their findings.

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

Similarities and differences are what make things so interesting. Would you be happy if everyone was the same. Every looked the same, and liked the same things and hated the same things. No you wouldn’t because you would want to be you and no one can tell you what you want to be or what you don’t want to be. Even the buildings you make would be the same from a normal house to a normal office building. The “Panama Canal” was one of the most useful canals ever built and they were made to for one reason and that was to transport goods. This was somethings everyone needed to solve at that time(1900s). The great Moai statues of Easter Island are also great structures and are really tremendous to the eye. These buildings and canals were made to one purpose they had to do somethings and that something was to make things easier for the people. Some similarities they had were that they both took a long time and sacrifice to build. A difference they had was that they were built for different purposes and they had their own different struggles.

One of the artifacts found was a white plate with purple and yellow flowers. It was found that the plate was made in Rome Italy, it was made by the Treci family. The Treci family was a small company that made pottery. The plate was used for certain dessert they do not know what kind though. The story of the Treci family is they moved to Oregon in the 1960’s to start a new life. When they got to Oregon they settled by the Deschutes river. They lived there for almost twenty years until there was a huge forest fire and it killed the whole family. The plate was used to try to put out the fire and it got broken.

An artifact has been found that pushes the timeline of the arrival of Native Americans in North Carolina back 4,000 years.

Although, no credible information regarding burials has been discovered, Headrick claims the highest-ranking ancestors underwent mortuary bundles, a treatment in which their remains are wrapped in assemblages (chapter 3). Mortuary bundles have not been found at Teotihuacan, thus, Headricks supports her claims by presenting information regarding mortuary bundles found in the Classical Maya and the Mixtec. Assimilating information about the treatment in those cultures and the discovery of the three stone masks, Headrick proposes that stone masks were likely tied to mortuary bundles as they are largely depicted in the city’s artistic record (chapter 3). Moreover, Headrick further supports her claim by comparing an archeological find of a ceramic bust with a mask to a similar one elsewhere in Mesoamerica (chapter 3). Headrick’s argument regarding mortuary bundles is convincing and the evidence to support her claim is

The following report details the archaeological fieldwork conducted by New South Associates, Inc. for proposed widening and improvements along U.S. 158 in Forsyth and Guilford counties, North Carolina. The purpose of the survey was to identify and evaluate archaeological sites for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), within the proposed project area of potential effects (APE). This project was conducted for the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) (TIP R-2577ABC, State Project No. 37405). This is a state-funded project covered under a United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) individual permit. As such, the USACE serves as the lead federal agency and the work complies with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA), as amended.

Although the Olmec, Teotihuacan and Post Classic are civilizations that are years apart from each other, many of their basic ideological concepts are extremely similar. Some scholars claim that the forms of the objects of visual culture remain constant with the passage of time, while the symbolism and ideology behind objects of visual culture are altered by the different civilizations that adopt the form and by the passage of time. Form and style are directly correlated, as the style being used to produce an object of visual culture will have an impact on its overall form and appearance. It is evident that each civilization had their own art style, therefore, making the form to vary throughout the different civilizations and time periods in

By studying different cultures, through artifacts found in their now desolate, but previously thriving communities, we can look at the details of their beliefs, ideas, attitudes and assumptions of a particular society at a given time. A common theme in this course has been the idea of knowledge and power and how they correlate to each other. As you grew up you may have heard the saying “Knowledge is Power” but during this semester we are looking at a number of different text and artifacts that suggest that Power produces knowledge. This means people in positions of power create a “truth” or master narrative that will unite the common people in order to fulfill the elite class’s agenda disregarding the common people’s well-being. By looking at these artifacts found in the Downtown San Jose Chinatown that was burned in the late 1800s, we can see how these Chinese immigrants lived and maybe even answers to how and why their home was torched.

It was found in an ancient tomb, which was uncovered by accident during construction work on a road. It consists of only six pages, but all of them are made from gold that is fastened with golden rings. The contents of the book includes text as well as images of a horseman, lyre, and warriors.

In this essay, Native American ceramics have been selected to demonstrate how the classical forms have impressed our factual knowledge of Native Americans, moreover, how the classical forms have influenced the modern pottery that is produced today. Also, this essay will vaguely explore how the artist’s culture have shaped their ceramics.

Standing at a height of twelve inches tall, this Vessel was one of many Aztec artifacts form 1300 A.D. It is made from brown earthenware clay and is painted with red with intricate details in black. It was used to represent death and the power in it, through the red and black paint. This piece is highly polished to show the black and red color contrast. This vessel was from The Aztec who was inspired by the horror of blood and death. On this piece, as well as of the other pieces in this collection, there is a stamp of the horror of death, to express that there is no higher brutality than the deceased. This stamp signifies the religious and cultural significances of the Aztec barbarians since it displays the warrior of a cruel God and that they

Finally, the plaques are clear evidence of a mutually beneficial cultural encounter with Portuguese traders in which both parties gained. It could be speculated that the rectilinear form of the plaques arose from Benin craftsmen seeing Portuguese oil paintings, but there is no evidence of this. The plaques, however, do first appear after contact with the Portuguese, following which there was a resurgence in bronze sculptures, probably as a result of the increased wealth and confidence of Benin.