Approximately 70,000 years ago, humans migrated out of Africa and began colonizing our planet. Archeologist James Henry Breasted first described a region of land which begins in present day southern Iraq and extends north along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It turns west toward ancient Assyria and then south towards present day Syria. This area then turns down into southern Palestine. J. H. Breasted called this area the Fertile Crescent because of its crescent-shape and the fertility of the land.
There are several defining characteristics of Shamanism. It involves complex rituals, some form of transcendence, and mediation between the spirit and earthly world (Jones and Molyneaux). These key features are exemplified in Paleolithic cave art, which, like Shamanism, has been associated with societies and cultures who were primarily hunter-gatherers (Smart 14). It has been proven, through excavations and thorough analysis, that Paleolithic cultures were hunter-gatherers. Glynn Isaac, archeologist at Harvard University, exposes a 1.5 million year old site in Kenya.
 ____ 4. Which of the following supports the necessity of animal sacrifice made by the Benin king?  ____ 5. The Akan commemorative head, which is sculpted by a female artist and has a long history in Akan tradition, served which of the following original purposes?  ____ 6.
Suwat Charoenrut 5280753 Analyzing artifact: the Baghdad battery During many excavations and archeological digs, numerous uncovered artifacts have created a new way of looking at the technological strides associated with ancient civilizations. In this article, you will learn of metal objects that have appeared in the oddest places, as well as what seems to be the first battery, dating more than 2,000 years old. 65 million years ago, humans were not roaming the world, so why is it that a semi-ovoid metallic tube was found within chalk that was dated at being 65 million years old. Discovered in France, this find hailed from the Cretaceous period. The Cretaceous period was the third and last block of geologic time during the Mesozoic
Name Course Professor Date Archaeology Introduction The American archeology sites give an insight into prehistoric and historic inhabitants of the American land. The pre-historic and historic people lived at different times. The presence of ancient inhabitants on American land is easily noticed by studying artifacts, features and archaeological sites. Artifacts refer to the portable object or equipments made and used by humans. On the other hand, features are the viewed as the aspects that depict human activity in a certain region.
Alfred Wegner was the theorist behind the discovery of tectonic plates back at the start of the 19th century. He found that across the globe there were small bits of evidence that showed the earth was once just one big continent called Pangaea, one part of evidence he found to explain this vast continent was the mountain ranges going through the middle of the West of Africa and the East of South America both of which go right up to the coastline and end in the sea. He noticed that if you connected the two continents up like a jigsaw then the two mountain ranges joined up nicely to make one big one. It isn’t just these two continents that join up but all the continents we have today connected up. For example Canada and the north of Scotland connect agreeably, and they have similar rock formations which indicate that they were laid down at the same time in the same place.
480-323 BCE – Classical Period. 450 BCE – Laws written on 12 stone tablets. 428-347 BCE – Plato and the Socratic Method. 399 BCE – Trial and execution of Socrates T: Agricultural, pastoral, and foraging societies and their demographic characteristics (Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia). Emergence of agriculture and technological change (e.g.
[pic]What were the underlying principles of Hammurabi's code of laws and what does the law code tell us about the kind of society that existed in Mesopotamia at the time? 4. Why were the Assyrians such formidable conquerors? 5. What were the technological innovations of the early Mesopotamians and how did they contribute to the development of the culture and to its overall economic prosperity?
Published within a year after the attack and written for a public readership the attitudes therein can be understood to reflect the general mind-set towards Benin at the end of the 19th century. Initially, the authors refer to the Benin Bronzes as “curious objects” - in keeping with an anthropological point-of-view, but also suggesting they shared the general belief that Africa produced only ‘primitive’ or
NUBIA THROUGH THE AGES The earliest of the Nubian cultures (the A-Group and C-Group) were located in northern Nubia. Until recently it was thought that A-Group people were semi-nomadic herdsmen. However, new research suggests that a line of kings 1ived in Qustul in northern Nubia as early as, or perhaps even earlier than, the first pharaohs of Egypt. The people of these early cultures buried their dead in stone-lined pit graves, accompanied by pottery and cosmetic articles. At this time, Nubia was known to the Egyptians as "Ta Sety," the "Land of the Bow," because of the fame of Nubian archers.