Horrible Histories

In this week’s readings, I learned that even though the past civilizations were very advanced then what I was lead to believe. Each readings connected to each other because each reading focuses on a specific aspect in which they excelled at during their time. The New York Times “Discoveries Challenge Beliefs on Humans’ Arrival in the Americas” article by Simon Romero informs the audience of Niede Guidon’s amazing findings and analysis which caused a double take of the question: who first arrived

Actually, I played Clash of clans because I couldn't be bothered to invest more than 10 min of my time in playing games. I did use to play Total war series, especially the Empire total war, but I guess in life there comes a time when games really do start to feel and seem trivial compared to real life activities. It was never about the development (or lack thereof) of society, but rather the degradation of critical thinking which such activities regularly induce in the more receptive spectrum of

Archaeology and archaeological findings are rarely, if ever, politically neutral. As stated by Quetzil E. Castañeda, “Once the archaeologist produces an interpretation of the past, that knowledge has a political life of its own” (as quoted in McGuire, 2008). Even if archaeologists pursue their research with no political intent, their work can be cited and used to support political agendas. Meaning, once archaeologists present the information to the public, whoever is able to access it is free to

then if she had been hearing her families history her entire life?

My endeavour to find and record bits and pieces of Blackstone Lake's past at first evolved into a history project when I discovered there was so much more that could be recovered than a smattering of stories of lore and interesting rocks. As I continued to uncover more historic facts, a greater story began to form that deepened my interest that may have verged on obsession. I couldn't just study the original and permanent residents and not the early cottagers. Then there is the intriguing deep, primordial

shared many more. Often certain traditions were lined out in the “Great Binding Law”, but since that law was not written down they needed ways to remember them, oftentimes this was simply done orally, but in cases of more complicated traditions and history symbols and other mnemonics were used. Because such an important traditions is on this cane if we want to be able to understand the Iroquois nation we need to understand the cane and any other important item. It would be like going trying

proclaimed to be a subject of history. History by definition has occurred in the past, comprising individuals or an entire society. To obtain a better understanding of the relationship between these three interconnected periods, it is important to recognize that history is derived from the past. However, in our daily lives we learn new perspectives from our successors who are creating history. That being said, the people who have been known to have influence in history have significance or relevance

resources and knowledge. Eurocentric historians and anthropologists commonly overlook this gold mine of historical events and anthropological data. With respect to history there is a lack in written documentation and written entities due to the fact that African societies commonly used the oral method in order to pass along their history. Whereas for anthropologists there is no shortage of aspects to be studied in Africa. There are two major viewpoints through which African culture and societies

History is significant because it allows us to understand where we have been and where we are going. We make up everything that is history; basically we are history. We make up the good and bad of what history engrosses. Studying history grants you the ability to notice our mistakes that have been made and learn from them. A person who does not show any concern for the study of history will never be able to grasp the impact history had on society. If you glance deep enough into history you can discover

I am starting a new column that shares the history of things. Since it's history column I thought maybe it would be cool to do one, my first one, on the history of the Pulitzer Prize. Well let's start with the basics. Dates and People. Then we can get into to all the interesting stuff, okay? Pulitzer, Joseph Pulitzer to be precise. Joseph Pulitzer is where it all started. Well, really it all started April 10 of the year 1847. That is the day the Joseph was born. He was born in Mako, Hungary as the