In 1972 Mary Leakey’s son, Richard, and Alan Walker were looking for fossils near Lake Turkana in Kenya. One day a member of their team, Kamoya Kimeu, found a fragment of skull. Later they found more pieces. They proved to form the skeleton of a boy who had died around a million and a half years ago. Human, yes.
b. Liu and Hassan were surprised to find metopic suture on an adult skull because right after birth the left side and right side of the frontal bone are united by the metopic suture. They were surprised because this suture should have disappeared between the ages of six to eight years of age. C. What delicate skeletal structures are found inside the nasal cavity that might be missing from an excavated skull? c. The skeletal structures that are found inside the nasal cavity that might be missing from a excavated skull would be the perpendicular plate, middle and inferior nasal concha and the vomer. D. How would Hassan and his team be able to tell the ages of the skeletal remains of the woman and baby?
One piece of evidence from an ice age shows us that continental drift actually happened. One of the Earth’s ice ages is called Permo Carboniferous, It’s large glacial sediments had covered many countries. These glacial sediments covered South America, Africa, Madagascar, Arabia, India, Antarctica, and Australia. Permo Carboniferous happened about two hundred and fifty million years ago and was discovered by A.G. Smith in 1997. This is important, because these continents could not all have been frozen while they were apart.
Then, scientists began to piece together the story of the enormous ship and its sinking. Now, they are filling in more holes, thanks to the first map of the entire Titanic wreck site. Experts say the new map will give them new information about the 100-year-old accident. The mapping expedition got underway in 2010. That's when a team of scientists traveled to the Titanic's final resting place in the ocean.
Manfred Korfmann, a German archeologist, has led excavations on the site believed to be Troy told of by legends for the past 16 years. He has said that if he were to meet someone who expressed belief that the Trojan War had happened in the site that his response would be, “why not” (Korfman 4)? Some of the results of the excavation have corresponded to the supposed date of the destruction of Troy. Evidence, for example skeletons and piles of sling bullets, support a possible conflagration. An issue brought up with accepting the city as Troy is that the town was “wholly insignificant” and “not a place worth fighting over” in the day in age associated with the war (Korfman 2).
Global specialists underwrite the finish of this examination, MH-17 has been brought around a BUK rocket. A year ago journalist Jeroen Akkermans brought with him a few sections of the homicide weapon from the accident site in Ukraine for examination. The material has been analysed by an autonomous establishment that has led a secret examination. Examination concerning the concoction piece demonstrated that they are stays from a BUK rocket, among which sections from the warhead, the pay load. The section of the warhead comprises of a low quality composite of steel regular to this type of ammo.
Probably one of the most well known examples is The Iceman, “Oetzi”. According to the Tattoo Museum (vanishingtattoo.com, n.a), Oetzi was found in a glacier near Austria and Italy in 1991. Scientists estimate Oetzi is from around the time 3300 B.C. Oetzi had 57 tattoos most of which were focused around his lower back and ankles. It is a widely believed theory that these tattoos were, in fact, an ancient type of acupuncture since the tattoos are mainly located around the areas that would treat problems like osteoarthritis and digestive problems he would have dealt with.
Titanic Presentation Notes * Process Used to Find the Titanic: (Bobby) * Discovered by Robert Ballard on September 1st, 1985 * Logbook of the Californian enabled Ballard to estimate the speed and direction of drift of the lifeboats. * The Californian was between five to ten miles away from the Titanic at the time of the disaster and reported in its log that they had experienced drift * Also Ballard knew that the Titanic had to be north of where the lifeboats were found * Titanic stemmed from a secret United States Navy investigation of two wrecked nuclear submarines * For 6 days, the Argo searched the sea floor and nothing came up. However, on the last day the team discovered a boiler * How the Titanic Sank: (Gary) * When a ship it sinks it leaves a path of debris (objects from within the ship or objects breaking off). Depending how deep the vessel sinks this debris can be scattered over a large distance. On a shorter descent, the debris falls more or less vertically.
The foundation of the field of geology itself in the middle of the nineteenth century paved the way for archaeology. Previous to scientists such as Cuvier, Smith, Hutton, and Lyell (page 7), the world was thought to be only 6,000 years old in the Western world. With the conscious decision by scholars to examine the natural world as a conglomerate of observable forces, scientists began to notice anomalies in geologic excavations. Things like manmade tools located near deposits of extinct animal skeletons questioned the traditional chronology of contemporary knowledge. In 1959 the scientists Sir Joseph Prestwich and John Evans studied these anomalies and popularized in the scientific community what is known as the “antiquity of man,” expanding the lifetime of humanity to be much older than most common folk imagined at the time (page 9).
The colder cycles are referred to as glacial periods and the warmer cycles are referred to as interglacial periods. These periods occur on intervals of 40,000 and 100,000 years. During these cycles ice sheets and glaciers advance and retreat with respect to the climatic conditions. The last glacial period, the Wisconsin Glaciation, ended approximately 11,000 years ago. The deglaciation of ice sheets and glaciers, which happens when we enter a interglacial warming period, are important because they have an immense impact on the land structure and vegetation throughout our continent, as well as the rest of the world.