Pompeii and Herculaneum are undoubtedly two of the most prolific and valuable archaeological finds of the ancient world. Both sites‚ due to their preservation in the hardened volcanic tufa and undisturbed tonnes of ash expelled by Vesuvius in AD 79‚ have yielded an abundance of archaeological artefacts which include human remains. Archaeologists‚ historians and museum authorities now face a critically urgent question of ethics concerning the excavation‚ scientific study and display of human remains
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If you live within 100 metres of a centrally protected monument‚ you cannot expand your property anymore‚ according to an amendment to an Act on the protection of monuments. In a major step towards protection of monuments under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)‚ President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday signed the amendment to the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Remains and Sites Act‚ 1958‚ which envisages ban on construction in the prohibited area of the ASI-protected monument. The
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Technology has helped archaeologists and historians to reconstruct the lives of people from Pompeii and Herculaneum. It has allowed artefacts and human remains to be deciphered and more knowledge to be gained. This is why the role of technology is important in reconstructing the lives of people from Pompeii and Herculaneum Estelle Lazer has worked on hundreds of disarticulated bones that were stored in the Sarno Baths in Pompeii. Her research was based on statistics and the use of techniques like
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In central Turkey‚ on the Konya plain‚ lie two tells in what is today one of Turkey’s main agricultural centres. Today the area suffers from periodic droughts‚ but 9000 years ago the Eastern tell‚ Çatalhöyük East‚ was a bustling village‚ or as James Mellaart claimed‚ a city (Anatolia News Agency 2008: 1). In November 1958 James Mellaart returned with two British archaeologists‚ David French and Alan Hall‚ to search the Konya plain for the tell-tale mounds that would signify early human settlement
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The Hopewell Culture The Hopewell culture left a magnificent legacy behind of earthworks and mounds that are found in what is now southern Ohio and across the United States. These earthworks would be lost if they were not federally protected by congress. What is so special about the mounds the Hopewell culture built is that they are the largest of any found earthworks and mounds. The Hopewell culture was known for the construction of huge geometric mounds‚ as the walls were built from the earth
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Anth 68 Day 2 Entering the Underworld In his chapter‚ Entering the Underworld‚ Leonardo Lopez Lujan talks about the relationship between the Mexican and fauna through time. Archeological sites excavated by archeologists show a wide variety of wild animals that were used as food and raw materials. He analyzes a singe burial place in a stone box called Offering 125‚ which he says is small in size but very rich in the information that it gives about the ancient relationship between human and fauna
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Task One: Where is Herculaneum located? What happened to the city? Why is Herculaneum important to archeology today? What are some of the challenges that archeologists face when examining the city of Herculaneum? How do you think the archeological investigation of Herculaneum relates to forensic anthropology? In what ways are similar techniques and processes used in both of these situations? What is surprising about the ruins in Herculaneum? How is this different than Pompeii? How do archeologists
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1. Where is Herculaneum located? What happened to the city? Herculaneum is located near Pompeii and a volcano erupted and buried the city alive 2. Why is Herculaneum important to archeology today? Herculaneum is important to society because they have a better chance of piecing together the mysteries of Herculaneum than any other site. All the evidence has been well preserved making it easier to piece together this ancient society. 3. What are some of the challenges that archeologists face when
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Where is Herculaneum located? What happened to the city? It is in Rome‚ near Pompeii. Why is Herculaneum important to archeology today? It is important because archeaologists know so many different things about it like what their diet was‚ how they lived and how they made their money‚ and so many little details. They have many different aspects and can put them together to make a society. It gives archeologists a big idea on how societies were back then. What are some of the challenges that
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The remains of ancient plants can provide a wealth of archaeological information about a site‚ with many methods being available to the archaeologist engaged in extracting this data. Perhaps one of the most widely-known of these techniques‚ possibly because of its attractive nature‚ is pollen analysis - a technique developed in the early years of the twentieth century by‚ like so many archaeological techniques‚ a geologist -- the Norwegian Lennart van Post. To understand the technique and the uses
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