Artifact analysis 8 4.1 Hearths 8 4.2 Stone tools 8 4.3 Human remains 9 5. Archaeological science 10 5.1 Methods 10 5.2 Conclusions 10 6. Making sense of the past 10 7. Bibliography 12 Figure 1: Plan of Mungo lunette (Shawcross, 1998) 4 Figure 2: Section of site B showing spit levels superimposed upon depositional features (Shawcross, 1998) 6 Figure 3 – Stratigraphic units and age ranges of sites (Bowler J. J., 2003) 7 1. Introduction Lake Mungo is located in the Mungo national park within the Willandra Lakes World Heritage region 110 kilometres north-east of Mildura,
The Egyptians calendar revolved around the annual flooding of the Nile river which brought rich silt to the valley, and was the beginning of the agricultural season for the Egyptians. In the Classical Maya period the Maya created a sophisticated calendar system of overlapping cycles that included multiple cycles, a two hundred and sixty day calendar, a three hundred and sixty five day calendar and a few more that I have not listed. The cycles restarted every fifty two years, which in my opinions could of lead to the inevitable collapse of the Maya. Both Egyptian and Mayan cultures were Polytheistic in their religions with rulers that represented Gods on Earth. The ancient Egyptians revolved heavily around Earth and Sun gods, which they believed controlled the vital flooding of the Nile.
Jesus Dominguez Ann Merville Anthropology 20 9 November 2013 Teotihuacan Teotihuacan, located in the highlands of central Mexico, is one of the world's most impressive archaeological sites. Between 100,000 and 200,000 people lived there at its peak around 600 A.D., making it one of the ancient world's largest cities with an urban core covering some twenty square kilometers. Settlement began about 200 B.C. and the basic layout of the city was complete by the mid-second century A.D. Most of the major construction was accomplished within the next hundred years.
Nile river- world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean sahara desert -A vast desert in North Africa that covers an area of about 3,500,000 square miles (9,065,000 sq km). Aquifers- A body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater. Niger delta-the delta of the Niger River in Nigeria, is a densely populated region sometimes called the Oil Rivers desertification- The process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture. Aswan high dam- one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt carthage-An ancient city on the coast of North Africa near present-day Tunis. It fought with Rome during the Punic Wars and was finally destroyed... black gold-
Cities were built in cultivation land near the Nile River so the natural flooding would water their crops, and bring with it natural minerals needed by the crops. Incan architecture is the most significant pre-Columbian architecture in South America. Inca buildings were made out of fieldstones or semi-worked stone blocks set in mortar; adobe walls were also quite common, usually laid over stone foundations. The material used in Inca buildings depended on the region, for instance, in the coast they used large rectangular adobe blocks while in the Andes they used local stones. The most common shape in Inca architecture was the rectangular building without any internal walls and roofed with wooden beams and thatch.
Mesopotamia is a fertile flat plain that was created by rich deposits of mud and clay that the two rivers carried from highlands and mountains that today make up the eastern side of Turkey, which lay to the north of what was Mesopotamia and is currently Iraq. The access to flowing water and fertile soil created by the rivers was what lead to the settlement of nomadic people from the Arabian Desert, which is currently located in Iran and Turkey (Hollar, 2011, p. 10). According to archaeologists who have been excavating sites in Mesopotamia since the 1840’s, primitive settlements formed between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers as far back as 10,000 B.C. Further evidence shows that early settlers fought over this fertile land, which encouraged larger and more organized groups of settlers to form the first nations in the history of this region. Eventually a well-organized nomadic tribe that existed east of Mesopotamia took control of the fertile lands and founded the nation of Sumer around 3,300 B.C.
However, kames consist of gravel and sand deposited by streams that flowed into holes in the glacial ice, depositing sediment in the holes. When the ice later melted, the materials slumped down, often forming conical-shaped hills. Thus, kames are formed "from above," veblens "from below" (diagram "A" showing difference in the origin of these two kinds of features ).
Ricardo Estrada Professor Eduardo J. Aguilar History 118 28 November 2008 Aztecs The Aztecs are a tribe from Mexico from 1325 to 1521 that lived in The Valley of Mexico. Although the Aztecs home was Aztlan, a Nahuatl word that means ‘’a place of heron’’. Aztlan was in the north of The Valley of Mexico. There, many city-states existed like Chalco, Xochimilco, Tlacopan, Culhuacan and Atzcapotzalco. Culhuacan was the most powerful on the south of Lake Texcoco and Atzcapotzalco on the west shore.
Fire Hole River begins at Madison Lake in a subalpine marsh on the Continental Divide. From there it flows north 21 miles past Old Faithful, through the Biscuit and Midway Geyser Basins, past Nez Perce Creek, through Fountain Flats and Firehole Canyon and on into the Madison River. The origins of the river’s name are debatable. It might have been named for the water vapor that springs up when the cold river water meets hot water from thermal formations. Another explanation has to do with the word “hole” being used by trappers to denote canyons; a fire in a canyon could have given the river its name.
Ogallala Aquifer Dennis W. Guffey, Angela Clawson, James Adamson, Rebecca Modrzynski GLG/220 November 10, 2014 Dave Santek Ogallala Aquifer Ogallala Aquifer The High Plains Aquifer system, also know as the leading geologic formation and more widely known as the Ogallala Aquifer occupies roughly 174,000 miles across eight states. The Ogallala is primarily made up of sand, gravel, clay along with groundwater filling in all the spots not occupied by dirt. The layout of the Ogallala was formed over ten million years ago by fluvial deposition from all the streams east of the Rocky Mountains. With the Ogallala being as old as it is, one would think it would dry up by now. Although, it is constantly recharged from all the rain and the snow