At the beginning of my archaeology class I came in thinking that we would be learning about rocks and pottery and how they are found as well as how people make money doing excavations and selling the materials collected. I soon learned that throughout history there have been great discoveries that tell stories and give us answers to problems from the past. Archaeologist have also shown how past cultures lived and how we have evolved into the culture we have now and what these cultures stand for today
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Schliemann The Terrible Father of Archaeology A terrible father impacts his child in one of two ways‚ either the child grows up to mirror the father or the child learns from the fathers mistakes and becomes a much better parent as a result. Hienrich Schliemann was a war profiteer. After getting rich he wanted to be taken seriously by the scientific community so he turned to archaeology. A stubborn man‚ a compulsive liar‚ a teller of tall tales‚ and a con artist he caused irreparable damage to
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Archaeologists in the media are more often then not portrayed as young fairly good-looking men dressed for an adventure where ultimately they will be the heroes. They will deliver the treasure and rescue the young beautiful damsel in distress‚ which is not the case in the film The Fifth Element. The movie opens with an older man who has a scruffy white beard and white hair with a thick European accent on an excavation. He is in what seems to be either an old Egyptian cave or pyramid deciphering
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NEW AND OLD WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY Artifacts of the old and new world have some likeness but also have many differences. I made a visit to the Cobb Museum at Mississippi State University to analyze this for myself. When down there‚ I saw pottery‚ writing‚ tools‚ jewelry‚ and many other things from each world. I then found ten artifacts of each period that was listed in the back of my workbook on the spreadsheets and wrote descriptions of them. For the new Old World‚ I described the Moabite stone‚ Sarcophagus
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The fundamental importance of Context in the Archaeology of the Intangibles By Rebecca Lee Culture history in archaeology involves the study of artifacts and objects that articulate the background of past human culture. It is imperative to understand the context of space and time in these artifacts and objects‚ as they tell stories of the human past with no written records accompanied with them. An intangible factor in archaeology‚ culture is derived through the study of the artifacts and
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1. What are the goals of archaeology? The goals of archaeology are to find historical things and find out events that have happened. 2. What is culture? Culture is the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. 3. How is the archaeological record used to date artifacts? Some archaeologist use carbon rating. 4. Describe the process of archaeological research. The process of archaeological research would be going through land research‚ knowing pinpoints and
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In terms of pioneers for women in the field of archaeology‚ Harriet Boyd Hawes (Fig 1.) has to be one of the greatest. She made great discoveries in her time as a field archaeologist and her records were exemplary for the time in which they were published. Classical archaeologists showed little or no interest in the uses for the objects they were discovering with the exception of Boyd who would greatly consider what her Cretan finds may have been used for (Trigger‚ 2006). In this essay I will
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Archaeology has been portrayed by Hollywood as a profession of adventure‚ danger and excitement. While real archaeology can be those things‚ it is not those things as portrayed by films such as the India Jones trilogy or the Lara Croft. It is not about fighting Nazis while being chased through the jungle in search of golden monkey heads. Real archaeology is a painstaking‚ intensive‚ elaborate science with the purpose of uncovering knowledge of past civilizations. Unfortuneately‚ many people today
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A stereotype can be defined as idea or claim made about a group of people or profession that was formulated without any evidence to back up the claim. When it comes to archaeologists there are many stereotypes‚ where few of them hold any truth. For example‚ some stereotypes include: all archaeologists are men‚ archaeologists are looking for something that is lost‚ they are often in highly dangerous situations‚ they have people trying to kill them and they win over a girl when they find what they
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