Social Science

Archaeology of Anatolia December 9th, 2003 3: Megarons in Ancient Anatolia (Modern day Turkey) The megaron is an architectural form surprisingly found to last throughout most of the historical ages in Anatolia. The fist evidence of it is in Chalcolithic…
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The Varna Cemetery The accidental discover of the Varna Cemetery (otherwise known as the Varna Necropolis) on the Black Sea coast of modern day Bulgaria, has shed light onto the lives of the people in the vicinity and the burial…
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Archeology had, at one time, a reputation for being boring and then its reputation went from mundane to exciting and adventurous with the release of the Indian Jones movies.  Unfortunately the first impression of archeology was the more correct one…
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Basics of Archaeology: Archaeology is the study of Man’s past through his physical and artifactual remains. Archaeology is one of those subjects that fascinate people. Why, they think, would someone spend their days and lives, usually in a field, digging…
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The Plano culture was the last group of prehistoric Native American people or Paleoindians that inhabited the American Southwest before the Archaic age. The Plano culture or plains people emerged with the end of the Ice Age in about 8000 BC….
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There is much speculation as to the similarities between Mesoamerican and Egyptian pyramids. Some speculate that they come from the same cultural source; some of the speculation is truly outlandish. There are those who speculate that extra-terrestrials visited earth and…
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In 1859, Charles Darwin published a controversial paper on evolution called The Origin of Species. By evolution, Darwin meant that all plants and animals are by their very nature, mutable, able to undergo small changes in their makeup; and that…
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There are many sciences that people study to show them why things work the way they do, archeology teaches people about the different human cultures through the use of recovery, architecture, and artifacts as well as environmental data. The study…
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Built at the height of the Inca Empire Manchu Picchu is a pre- Columbian 15th century Inca site that can be found located 2,430 meters above sea level. Manchu Picchu is nestled on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley…
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Archaeoastronomy is the study of the history of human interaction with the cosmos. It is a broad, and relatively new science that takes on attributes of archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, statistics, and history. Archaeoastronomers try to figure out how ancient civilizations…
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