Archaeology Is Fun

12/23/2021

Mount Yasur is a volcano on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, 361 m (1,184 ft) high above sea level,[2] on the coast near Sulphur Bay, northeast of the taller Mount Tukosmera, which was active in the Pleistocene. It has a largely unvegetated pyroclastic cone with a nearly circular summit crater 400 m in dia...

02/12/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2HiPW_qSrs&feature=emb_title

Lindsay Morcom explores why Indigenous languages are matter to linguists and to Indigenous communities. She begins with a discussion of the cultural and ling...

01/27/2021

Nations within a Nation. The Mi'kmaq-a people found in the Archaeological Record-Living Today as the Qalipu First Nation.

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01/19/2021

Perhaps we don't think of anthropology in mathematical equations but from a sentence; ecologies include different technologies and economic strategies. Hence an equation; Human Ecology = (technology)*(economic systems) or technology times economic systems equates to Human Ecology.

Human ecology is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of the relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built environments. The philosophy and study of human ecology has a diffuse history with advancements in ecology, geography, sociology, psychology, anthropology, zoolog...

12/09/2020

This tomb looks like it was painted yesterday.

11/24/2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar

Lidar (/ˈlaɪdɑːr/, also LIDAR, LiDAR, and LADAR) is a method for measuring distances (ranging) by illuminating the target with laser light and measuring the reflection with a sensor. Differences in laser return times and wavelengths can then be used to make digital 3-D representations of the tar...

11/24/2020

Lost Cities See the Fortress in Acre, Israel of the Knights Templar-found and mapped for the 1st time in modern history.

08/15/2020

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08/14/2020

is part of what makes up archaeology. became great because it had an advantageous location in trade routes along with investment capital. Is it possible that ancient societies previously recognized the value of this area & built here?

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06/30/2020

Concepts important for understanding cultures and cultural interactions include;
1. Ethnocentrism
2..Cultural relativism
3. Enculturation
4. Assimilation
5. Acculturation
6. Multiculturalism
7. Pluralism