The Evolution Of The Sannai-Maruyama Site

It is known that the south coast, where the Budawang Tribe was situated had been inhabited for 20,000 years or more. The Budawang tribe used the natural resources of the land to live and they had a very sustainable lifestyle with a pristine coast conditions. Some of the ways that the Budawang

Evidence of almost 100 of the stones has revealed without the need to excavate the site, due to remote sensing, ground-penetrating radar and geographical imaging technologies. These advancements in science and technology allow researchers to discover the historical monuments full extent. Fragments of bones, stones and the foundation pits in which they were situated have all been uncovered during excavations and technological mapping indicating the true size and importance the site was to the Neolithic

|1500 CE |Early Woodland Period. Use of pottery and building of earth tombs emerges especially in the Mississippi |

The nature of warfare is unfathomable to someone who hasn’t experienced it. Yet, “With The Old Breed At Peleliu and Okinawa” describes every aspect of war. Sledge describes his experience by giving the reader the idea of what war is like, the ability to picture it in their heads, and evoke some sort of emotions from his experience when he was there. In order for Sledge to describe the nature of his experience in the war, he needed to describe the essence of what it was truly like. “I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.” (Sledge). He goes into great detail of the physical

In recent years, ancient burial grounds have been frequently disturbed due to increasing surveillance by anthropologists and constructed on by state-of-the-art technology and are more critically protected than ever before. Understanding the importance of burial grounds gives an insight on the rich history of ancient Hawaii. They have influenced the burials performed, ancestors and their modern inhabitants, and how they have impacted modern Hawaii. Burial methods will range from the tallest peaks on land to burying those in the ocean. Ancestors influence these methods depending on their rank and actions, having their modern descendants have a choice to inherit these arrangements and protect their ancestors.

The San were greatly influenced by their long-term connection with an ancient past. The San’s society can be characterized by “mobility, sharing, and equality.” Their economic life was mostly controlled by their desire to continue their long-standing customs and very old traditions. Unlike the Chumash’ much larger camps of thousands of peoples, the

The first time I heard about the Mound Builders, which was in this class, these people seemed like a very primitive group. What was so exciting about having the skill of piling up a bunch of dirt. Then I was able to see some of these mounds and the scale was nothing I had imagined. These mounds were huge and also contained distinct structural shapes. Tombs, houses, and religious structures were constructed in or on top of the mounds. What made the edifices even more amazing was the time period they were built. Constructed all the way back to 3000 B.C., the mounds rivaled the most advanced engineering techniques in the world.

This essay will aim to cover several archaeology techniques and methodologies that would have been used during excavation of archeological sites, in particular the New Kinord site. These methods will provide an insight into a wide range of information that I am interested in discovering. These include what the inhabitants of the site did for a living, their diet and how the term of occupation can be determined.

In the 1930s, Hohokam archaeology was in its infancy. The research organization known as Gila Pueblo chose the prehistoric village of Snaketown as the site for excavation. It would represent Hohokam culture history because the site Snaketown lies in the approximate center of the Hohokam area and had not been altered by pseudo-archaeologists or vandals. (Gladwin, 6) However, Snaketown also boasted massive mounds, an easily distinct canal, and an immense ball court, characteristics that fit the early researchers' understanding of a "type site" that would define the Hohokam concept. (Motsinger, 89) The data from these earliest investigations, Emil Haury's efforts in 1976, and Wilcox's following reevaluation in 1981

In the book The Prehistory of Home Jerry Moore discusses the importance that home structures have had for humans over time in different places of the world. He says that “In addition to their basic and fundamental function of providing shelter from natural elements, dwellings are powerful and complex concentrates of human existence… our dwellings reflect and shape our lives” (Moore, 3). He believes that homes are representations of the existence of individual humans as well as their surroundings. Jerry Moore is successful in explaining the importance of home in archaeology throughout history with colorful examples as well as a comparison of the importance of the home in the past to the importance of the home in the future.

The largest mound discovered in North America is Monks Mound in Cahokia, located outside of present day St. Louis and covers more than eighteen acres and is over one hundred feet tall (3). Made with locally quarried soils and built in stages over the course of a century or more, these mounds served as platforms for building, stages for religious and social activities and some were even used as cemeteries (1). It is believed that natives often occupied pre-existing settlements where the previous chiefdom had died out and the site had been abandoned; the reoccupying of these sites lead to the buildup of the earth mounds. Mounds were formed in the shape similar to a pyramid with the top cut off leaving a platform on the summit. Mounds were used to define the public space of the settlements plaza. The chief’s house was always on the largest mound in the settlement. If the mound was large enough a temple could be added or even a mortuary house so natives could prepare their dead. If the chief’s mound was not big enough then the temple mound would be adjacent to the chief’s mound in the plaza so that they would face each other (2).

The story of the Hokulea, a model of the first canoes that brought the first Polynesians to Hawaii, is a story that restores cultural pride and history to Hawaiians. Her legacy was almost extinct, but survived and restored the relationship that society has with its island home. More than 600 years had gone by without seeing one of these canoes, until artist Herb Kane thought to build a sailing canoe just like the ones his ancestors sailed (Hokulea.com).

Over centuries, the Mimbres people built, abandoned, filled in, or dismantled their pithouses and built newer structures on top.

One of the most influential and progressive cultures in North American history was the mound-building Native American tribes. The most significant aspects of the mound-building peoples was the multitude of mounds built for burials, ceremonial and ritual events, temples and other important buildings, and effigy mounds in the shape of various animals (Colin Calloway, 2012, p. 32). Archeologists classify mound building Indians of the Southeast into three major chronological/cultural divisions: the Archaic, the Woodland, and the Mississippian (United States National Park Service, n.d.). Although Mississippians are known for their mounds; they were also the first fully domesticated farmers cultivating

civilization took course over thousands of years . There was a particularly interesting time when humans lived in what were referred to as ]pit dwellings]. During this time, humans were prone to eating only animals that were easily caught, with a general lack of complex grains or other vegetation in their diets. They used rudimentary tools, with sharp edges, for digging what would be their pit. These were typically 6=14 feet in diameter, and in later years were found to have elements of connection, forming make shift