Social Science

Put very simply, Archeology is one of four sub-disciplines of Anthropology, which is the study of people and their biology and culture through the ages: * ARCHEOLOGY: The analysis of human growth through the recovery and documentation of first degree…
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For the many centuries of researching about pyramids, there are still a number of concerns and issues archaeologists face in their excavation projects. Although most people assume that excavation is always a priority choice by many archaeologists studying pyramids, it…
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Archaeology is the science of learning about a culture by using the mom method. What is the mom method? Ask any mother and she can tell you, all she has to do is walk in her house and she knows…
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The Indiana Jones movies have inspired interest in archaeology, even though the movies are based around a fictitious character. These films do not give archaeology a bad name at all: They focus on the adventures of an intelligent, respectable man…
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The magical world of Discovery. The natural curiosity that abounds in all children is a tool to be harnessed in their education. One important subject that children should be taught about is archaelogy. Archaeology is the study of our human…
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In studying the way that humans used the resources of their environment and how it shaped the world they lived in can give archaeologists important clues to what life was like many thousands of years ago. This is done by…
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The goal of archaeology is to recreate the past from what those that lived it left behind. History, it is said, is written by the victors and nowhere is this more true then in the recorded accounts of battles. Archaeologists…
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The fact that we humans are different from our ape cousins is self evident.  We have bigger brains, walk upright and we make and use tools.  But ever since the publication in 1871 of Charles Darwin’s “The Descent of Man”…
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The aquatic ape hypothesis is a theory that, at some point in the past several million years ago, the ancestors of Homo sapiens lived on the seashore and spent enough time in the water that their bodies developed a number…
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Stereotyping is a term used by sociologists to describe aspects of racism, ethnocentrism, hate crimes, discrimination, and prejudice; whereas a sociological hypothesis refers to a statistical analysis and conclusion attempted in a scientific research design. A sociologist might use the…
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