King Tut was king of Egypt for approximately four years so why do people consider him so important? Well it has always been scientist's interest in why this king died so young until 1922 when Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were exploring the ancient tombs of Egypt they discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamen (Tut). They discovered a funerary temple thought to be built by Tutankhamen; he died before he finished building it so his sons finished it. His tomb is buried a mile away from the funerary temple. The Valley of Kings is believed to be where many of King Tut's family was buried.
Sue, the T-Rex The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex was discovered on August 12, 1990, after being dug up from the bottom of a hill in north central South Dakota. Measuring an amazing twelve and a half meters (forty-one feet) long, and four meters (thirteen feet) tall at the hip, the skeleton is the largest skeleton structure ever to be unveiled. The remains of the highly preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex remains were found by Sue Hendrickson, a volunteer with the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, and therefore it was decided to name the skeleton Sue. Sue is estimated to be approximately sixty-five million years old. Characteristics of her bones helped to determine some detail of the Tyrannosaurus Rex’s life.
Glynn Isaac, archeologist at Harvard University, exposes a 1.5 million year old site in Kenya. The stone tool and bone remnants discovered at the site were analyzed with a microscope, revealing that the tools had been used on
In 1962, an archaeological team from the University of Illinois unearthed the exact location of the blacksmith’s shop where John Deere developed his first successful steel plough in 1837. The location has been preserved in an exhibition hall which shows artefacts that were found and how the site would have looked when John Deere was present, enhanced with the sound of horse’s hooves on the treadmill, hammers on the anvil and conversations between workers. It was in a place such as this that John Deere invented the first self-polishing steel plough which opened the prairie to
Introduction Have you ever wondered where we come from? Anthropologists have made many discoveries in the past few decades that have increased our knowledge as to who our ancestors are and how humans evolved. “Lucy” who was discovered in 1974. Anthropologists have discovered fossil remains of an ancestor older than Lucy; a female named Ardipithecus, or Ardi for short, who possesses human and ape-like qualities. Ardi proved that bipedalism, or walking upright on two feet, existed half a million years before previously thought * Thesis: The main features of Ardi that helped shed light on these discoveries were from close examinations of Ardi’s skull, pelvis and limbs, and her teeth.
Hotel available. Isle royale exists as a island in many ways, The surface scene you see from the island is the product of 10,000 years of natural sculpting, soil-building. the island appeared beneath glacial ice, rising as the lake level dropped. The island developed soil and was colonized by plants and animals. Long before Europeans landed on Isle Royale, American Indians mined copper her.
Tracy Berry Due October 15, 2014 The Gundestup Cauldron The Gundestup Cauldron, which was crafted in Gaul circa 100 BCE and was discovered in a peat bog in Denmark in 1891. The Gundestup Cauldron is made of 97% silver, consists of a hemispherical base a base plate, seven outer, and five inner plates richly decorated with hammered and stamped figures. Weighing nearly 9 kg., with a spherical base, the cylindrical side is 69cm. diameter and 42 cm. high; both the inner and outer plates are almost of the same height (about 21cm) forming the cylindrical side of the cauldron.
Food, in the form of extinct llama, shellfish, a variety of vegetables and nuts, and most astoundingly, a chunk of mastodon meat, was recovered at the site (Preston 1999). A series of radiocarbon samples from bone and charcoal taken near the fireplace returned a date of close to 13,000 years ago, and thus one of the very oldest sites in the Americas. The site also yielded botanical remains and artifacts made of stone, wood and animal bone, all suggesting a technology characterized by the site's excavators as 'focused primarily on the procurement and manipulation of wood and plants' (Dillehay 1989: 17). Monte Verde's great importance is that, granted the site is valid; it breaks the Clovis barrier which claims that the people from Clovis, New Mexico, were the earliest population to enter the Americas (Rose 1999). It is important to note that the Clovis theory has been accepted for nearly 50 years in the study of archeology.
Reflection #6 Sierra Norris May 29, 2015 Through this six weeks we have gone over many things. One such example would be the skeletal system. We learned about every bone and where they are in the body, we learned about the different layers of each bone and what each layer does. Ms. Parr also reminded us that there are 206 bones in the human body. She then continued on with muscles.
Jane was "filled with awe by the sight or the feel of [the fossils]. This--this very bone--had once been part of a living, breathing animal that had walked and slept and propagated its species millions of years ago. It had belonged to a creature with a personality, with eyes and hair and its own distinctive scent, its own voice. What had it really looked like? How had it lived?"