However, through historical and scientific research, many of the ideas conveyed by the tomb were proven to be false. This has led to many misconceptions about the life and death of Tutankhamun. The tomb provides a story on Tut, a story that may not be entirely true. History has uncovered the truth, and determined that the tale being told by King Tut’s tomb is merely how he wanted to be perceived. It is the legacy that lives on after his death.
Cueva de El Castillo Looking at the Stone Age Cueva de El Castillo Looking at the Stone Age Located in the northern most province of Spain, Cueva of El Castillo arguably holds the oldest cave paintings known to earth. The "Cave of the Castle" has over 150 images catalogued with several dating 35,000 years old and a few dating 40,800 years. (U-Series Dating of Paleolithic Art) Spanish archaeologist Hermilio Alcalde del Rio first discovered the cave in 1903 on his quest to learn about early cave paintings. He found the time of these earliest paintings are in the Aurignacian cultural era, tools used in this time were made of bone, flint and antler. The paintings and carvings in the cave were made with these early tools.
The Arctic Small Tool Tradition, also known as Pre-Dorset, is a circumpolar cultural development which probably originated in Siberia. The oldest sites in North America appear suddenly on the west coast of Alaska about 4,000 years ago. Similarities to the Plano and Northwest micro blade traditions, as well as to Siberian Mesolithic blade technologies have caused considerable debate over origins (Irving 1962; Laughlin 1962, MacNeish 1964; Damas 1969). The technology bears no resemblance to the complexes which were previously present in the coastal regions of Alaska. The warming trend which was still evident at this time may have assisted in the rapid movement of people across the High Arctic.
This period is best known as the era during which the Neanderthals lived in Europe and the Near East (c. 300,000–28,000 years ago). Their technology is mainly the Mousterian, but Neanderthal physical characteristics have been found also in ambiguous association with the more recent Châtelperronian archeological culture in Western Europe and several local industries like the Szeletian in Eastern Europe/Eurasia. There is no evidence for Neanderthals in Africa, Australia or the Americas. Neanderthals nursed their elderly and practised ritual burial indicating an organised society. The earliest evidence (Mungo Man) of settlement in Australia dates to around 40,000 years ago when modern humans likely crossed from Asia by island-hopping.
History of North Creake Region of Norfolk Prehistoric It is now thought that there were humans living in the Norfolk region around 950,000 years ago. However they were not homo sapiens but a short lived dead end of the human family tree known as homo antecessor. Recent finds in Happisburg in 2008 reveal a previously unknown sub-species of human living in the eastern part of Norfolk who must have been very hardy as temperatures were much lower than today. They left flints and bones from their hunts when Norfolk was linked to Europe by a land-bridge created by ice-age conditions. They lived in a time when Norfolk’s landscape featured sabre-tooth tigers and mammoths.
The Anasazi's A long time ago, people lived in what would become the Southwest Region of the United States. Some scientists say people came to this region about 40,000 years ago from Asia. Some say 25,000 years ago. Cave Drawings: They left traces of themselves on cave walls. Pictographs are rock drawings.
Eventually scholars concluded that the lines were not chiefly for astronomical purposes, but Reiche's work had brought educational attention to the great resource. “Maria Reiche really put her effort in trying to discredit Erich Von Däniken’s theory about aliens” (bibliotecapleyades). For over 30 years, Erich von Däniken has pursued the theory, which states that Earth might have been visited by extraterrestrial beings in the past. Erich von Däniken has become famous for an infamous idea: that the origins
While many famous archaeological discoveries have become famous in their own right, some occupy a sphere of infamy due to the wake of questionable activity concerning the treatment of the discoveries themselves. Despite contemptible activity being a rather common occurrence throughout Archaeology's past, there have been certain discoveries that have risen to a position of insurmountable notoriety and controversy. Paramount, perhaps, in this category of controversial digs and diggers sits Heinrich Schliemann, whose discovery of treasure at the historic site of Homer's Troy in 1873 is still quarrelled over in terms of its rightful ownership (Easton 1994:221, 222; Meyer 1995:46). Concerning this collection of treasures, the intent of this paper is threefold. First, I shall offer an exposition tracing the treasure's journey from its deposition to its current
Considerations of Developing Gender Roles in Prehistoric Man Kathleen E. Waller ANT353 Michael Hollis March 5, 2012 Gender 1 When considering gender roles in prehistoric man, one can only speculate. There are limited resources available that lend any absolute evidences into the importance of developing gender relationships, and distributions of labor, between men and women. Archeology continues to unearth physical representations of primordial humans, along with archaic structures, tools, and ornamentation. As recently as February, 2012, Paleolithic cave paintings have been discovered preserved “in Spain's Nerja caves that have been radiocarbon dated to between 43,500 and 42,300 years old.” (MacErlean, 2012) These ancient representations give a rare glimpse into the past, but propose no real understanding of gender interactions. Examination of modern primitive cultures, offer anthropologists a model for early social structure, and man’s commencing division of labor based on gender.
Retrieved August 26, 2009, from www.pubpages.unh.eda/~aeg24/pages/history Tattoos and Body Piercings 3 Tattoos and Body Piercings Tattoos and body piercings are a form of art to some, a detriment to others, and a form of expression that may take only a few hours to acquire, but hold a lifetime of regret. Tattoos originated before 3000 B.C. They were found on the mummies of Egyptian pharaohs. During those times tattoos were not known as a way of decorating one's body, they were marks that meant something that each particular person, or tribe member, had been through. It was not one nation, or culture that created the tattoo tradition; tattoos were common for a number of tribes and nations.