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an artifact is an object recovered by archaeological endeavor, which may have a cultural interest.

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02/19/2015

Neanderthal groups based part of the their lifestyle on the s*xual division of labor
Neanderthal communities divided some of their tasks according to their s*x. This is one of the main conclusions reached by a study performed by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), published in the Journal of Human Evolution. This study, which analyzed 99 incisors and canine teeth of 19 individuals from three different sites (El Sidron, in Asturias - Spain, L’Hortus in France, and Spy in Belgium), reveals that the dental grooves present in the female fossils follow the same pattern, which is different to that found in male individuals.

Analyses show that all Neanderthal individuals, regardless of age, had dental grooves. According to Antonio Rosas, CSIC researcher at the Spanish National Museum of Natural Sciences: “This is due to the custom of these societies to use the mouth as a third hand, as in some current populations, for tasks such as preparing the furs or chopping meat, for instance”.

02/18/2015

Ceramic (or pottery) objects are among the most common types of artifacts found on prehistoric archaeological sites in Latin America. Pottery was used to make an enormous variety of things in the past, from plain household pots to elaborate ceremonial vessels, and everything in between. Ceramicsare made from clay mixed with various kinds of inclusions, such as sand or shells, and water. These combinations create a material that can be formed into almost any shape a potter can imagine. Once the pot is formed, it is dried and then fired in an open-pit fire or kiln to create a hard and durable vessel. The earliest ceramics in Latin America have been found in northern South America, in what is now Colombia and Ecuador. Nicely decorated ceramics were excavated from the site of San Jacinto in northern Colombia and have been dated to about 4500 BC. Slightly later ceramics are known from coastal Ecuador belonging to the Valdivia culture, dating to about 3200 BC. Ceramics showed up much later in Mesoamerica and it seems likely that ceramic technology spread north from South America into Mesoamerica by about 1800 BC.Ceramics offer archaeologists a wealth of information about the past. From the pottery found at a site, archaeologists can often determine the different activities, such as cooking or food storage, which were being carried out there. Ceramics also make excellent time markers that archaeologists use to assign a time period to archaeological occupations and sites. Since pottery styles generally change through time, it is possible to create ceramic chronologies, or time lines, that allow archaeologists to determine the dates that a site was occupied.

02/17/2015

Buried for centuries in a field in central England - two eagles flanking a fish, the Dark Ages treasure was one of more than 1,500 scattered gold and silver ...

02/16/2015

Unearthed in 2000 on Happisburgh Beach, Norfolk, by a man waking his dog, the hand axe radically altered historians’s understanding of our past, revealing that Britain had been inhabited by human beings for 100,000 years longer than had been previously thought.The flint hand-axe was used by our early ancestors as a butchery tool to carve flesh off skeletons between 500,000 and 700,000 years ago.

02/15/2015

The stone pictured below is described as showing a planet with an atmosphere, a comet or other fiery object being deflected by a friendly UFO (saucer) while .

02/13/2015

Timeline photos

02/12/2015

Archaeology of Portable Rock

Acheulean style artifacts from glacial margin at Licking County, Ohio, ask if there could have been a technological persistence into Late Pleistocene or Holocene new world migrations

02/11/2015

Ancient seals found at the ancient city of Doliche, Turkey.

02/10/2015

Artifact (archaeology)

An artifact or artefact (from Latin phrase arte factum, from ars skill + facere to make) is "something made or given shape by man, such as a tool or a work of art, esp an object of archaeological interest".[1] "Artifact" is the only spelling in American English, but other varieties of English also accept "artefact"

In archaeology, where they are used, an artifact is an object recovered by archaeological endeavor, which may have a cultural interest. However, modern archaeologists take care to distinguish material culture from ethnicity, which is often more complex, as expressed by Carol Kramer in the dictum "pots are not people"

Examples include stone tools, pottery vessels, metal objects such as weapons, and items of personal adornment such as buttons, jewelry and clothing. Bones that show signs of human modification are also examples. Natural objects, such as fire cracked rocks from a hearth or plant material used for food, are classified by archeologists as ecofacts rather than as artifacts.

02/09/2015

One of West Oakland's stories is the development, florescence, and decline of a Black middle class. Born of the industrial development

02/08/2015

Various archaeological artifacts.

02/07/2015

Archaeology

Archaeologists study human culture by analyzing the objects people have made. They carefully remove from the ground such things as pottery and tools, and they map the locations of houses, trash pits, and burials in order to learn about the daily lives of a people. They also analyze human bones and teeth to gain information on a people’s diet and the diseases they suffered. Archaeologists collect the remains of plants, animals, and soils from the places where people have lived in order to understand how people used and changed their natural environments. The time range for archaeological research begins with the earliest human ancestors millions of years ago and extends all the way up to the present day. Like other areas of anthropology, archaeologists are concerned with explaining differences and similarities in human societies across space and time.

02/06/2015

Development of archaeological method

The father of archaeological excavation was William Cunnington (1754–1810). He undertook excavations in Wiltshire from around 1798,funded by Sir Richard C**t H***e. Cunnington made meticulous recordings of neolithic and Bronze Age barrows, and the terms he used to categorise and describe them are still used by archaeologists today.

One of the major achievements of 19th century archaeology was the development of stratigraphy. The idea of overlapping strata tracing back to successive periods was borrowed from the new geological and palaeontological work of scholars like William Smith, James Hutton and Charles Lyell. The application of stratigraphy to archaeology first took place with the excavations of prehistorical and Bronze Age sites. In the third and fourth decades of the 19th century, archaeologists like Jacques Boucher de Perthes and Christian Jürgensen Thomsen began to put the artifacts they had found in chronological order.

A major figure in the development of archaeology into a rigorous science was the army officer and ethnologist, Augustus Pitt Rivers,

who began excavations on his land in England in the 1880s. His approach was highly methodical by the standards of the time, and he is widely regarded as the first scientific archaeologist. He arranged his artefacts by type or "typologically, and within types by date or "chronologically". This style of arrangement, designed to highlight the evolutionary trends in human artefacts, was of enormous significance for the accurate dating of the objects. His most important methodological innovation was his insistence that all artefacts, not just beautiful or unique ones, be collected and catalogued.

02/05/2015

Archaeological Collections

The Museum holds archaeological finds from every part of the inhabited world. They range from some of the very oldest – early hominid tools discovered by Louis Leakey in Olduvai Gorge, east Africa – to medieval and post-medieval finds from sites within Cambridge. They include finds from major excavations crucial to the development of archaeological science, such as those conducted by Kathleen Kenyon at Jericho in the Jordan valley, one of the oldest continually occupied cities in the world, and material from Star Carr in Yorkshire, excavated by Grahame Clark over 1949-51. MAA holds one of the finest pre-Columbian collections in Britain, including remarkably preserved early textiles; important prehistoric Arctic materials; wide-ranging collections relating to early research in southern Africa, on rock art among other topics; and – of special interest to Cambridge communities – finds from major Roman cemeteries at Great Chesterford and Litlington, as well as many other prehistoric, Roman and Anglo-Saxon finds from the city and region.

02/04/2015

Timeline photos

02/03/2015

Amateur Archaeology

02/02/2015

Archaeological dig near Glenwood

02/01/2015

LIBYAN HERITAGE AT RISK

ROME, ITALY—Savino di Lernia, director of The Archaeological Mission in the Sahara, Sapienza University, has described the state of archaeology in Libya today in an article in the journal Nature. Violence, vandalism, and trafficking in antiquities have damaged and destroyed archaeological sites and prehistoric rock art since the revolution of 2011. He argues that the study of Libyan heritage should focus on materials in museums and collections; that collections should be digitized and made widely available; and that the next generation of Libyan scientists should be trained in international labs. “Among the hopes sparked by the revolution was the idea of a more modern view of the archaeological and cultural heritage—as a gateway to a shared national identity, a major revenue source and a focus for forging relationships with the rest of the world. Those hopes have been dashed,” di Lernia stated.

01/31/2015

Venus figurines

01/30/2015

Paleo and Early Archaic projectile poiints

01/29/2015

The Goddess Cult Venus figurines

01/28/2015

The Croatian History Museum’s Archaeology Collection is among the Museum’s younger collections. Besides a few objects which were brought to the National Museum as donations in the early twentieth century, all of the remaining inventory was gathered in the latter half of the twentieth century.

The collection consists of 721 objects made of diverse materials, such as ceramic, glass and metal, and they generally date to the period spanning the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries. The objects in the Archaeology Collection were found in archaeological excavations or by chance during field reconnaissance in continental Croatia. The objects and fragments thereof, such as, for example, stove tiles and pieces of frescoes, illustrate everyday life in the late Middle Ages, and they will be used as such in the Museum’s future permanent display.

01/27/2015

Istanbul Archaeology

01/24/2015

One of the favourite parts of my job as an archaeological analyst at Monticello is presenting our research to visitors. I love the opportunity to tell the story of those who made Monticello their home hundreds of years ago. Things as simple as broken dishes, lost buttons, and discarded to***co pipes can give incredible insights into the daily lives on this plantation.

01/23/2015

Paper tapes bearing phrases from Qing dynasty (1644-1911) imperial edicts are some of the most popular souvenirs available at Academia Sinica’s Museum of the Institute of History and Philology. (UDN)

01/22/2015

Archaeological Ethics
Archaeologists and archaeological organizations in recent times have attempted to distance themselves from the antiquities collecting world, on the basis that participating in the process, by taking money from collectors or publishing unprovenanced (and therefore likely looted) artifacts that have appeared since 1970, only makes the problem of looting worse. Read some more about this issue on the following websites, and then write a short response to the following questions: Should archaeologists accept funding for their work from collectors like Shelby White? Should archaeologists refuse to study or publish artifacts for which they have reason to believe were illegally acquired?

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