Essays on Archaeology

In this Article, Author starts his discussion with discourses about Background of Hunter-Gatherer Complexity. I summarize first section’s important sentences in the below; Archaeologists separate hunter-gatherers into two camps ‘simple’ and ‘complex.’ Recently there has been heated discourse as to the ‘nature’ of complex hunter-gatherer…

North of the Benin River–hidden through the gloomy mangrove trees–sits the oldest and most developed state in West Africa, Benin City. Founded by the Edo people, Benin conducts with a megastructure never seen anywhere else in the world. This assembled structure expanded the territories of…

Humans have and are continuing to evolve and with them are the environments in which they choose to inhabit, cherish, or use to their advantage. And as both humans and the world develop, time passes and the events, in which humans make, then creates history….

My chosen artifact has been named Offering #4, it was discovered in La Venta north of a pyramid in the Ceremonial Court of Complex A (Colman, 2015). It consists of stone figurines (composed of serpentine and granite) and celts made of jadeite, an American form…

Over the next ten thousand years these natives, such as the Clovis People, managed a boom, with their population increasing exponentially. This growth was uncontested anywhere else in the world. During this time, they spread from the Canadian Arctic, through the entire contiguous United States,…

End of 18th Century and Beginning Of 19th century The study of historical and archaeological evidences in Bangalore can be trace back to end of eighteenth century, Mark wilks, a colonel (1759-1831) was a Manx soldier, historian and east India company administrator during the British…

In 1989 archeologists found the bones of a middle age 9-month pregnant woman in the grave there were three baby skeletons. The mother had died in labor. As they kept digging they found a man buried just above her on her left shoulder. The bones…

Archaeology, as I’ve learned throughout the entirety of this course, is something that is truly in the depths of our everyday lives. Although we fail to realize this, opportunities like this that we are given to dig deeper into our own personal history and interests…

“The Archaeologist in the Cocoon”, episode of the show Bones, begins with the discovery of a body wrapped inside of a cocoon. This cocoon is hanging on a tree branch beside a man who was caught in the tree while skydiving. Dr. Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist…

Perched on the edge of a cliff, alongside the Caribbean Sea, stands the ancient Mayan ruins of Tulum. Can you imagine a more picturesque place to build a city? We went to visit this stunning archaeological site last week. Here’s what we know: Tulum was…