Archeology Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (33) essays
Archaeology essays:
The James Ossuary and the Jehoash Tablet.
... of burial for Jews during the Roman Period from about First Century BCE to 70 AD. The James Ossuary is noteworthy because of its inscription which reads "James, Son of Joseph, Brother of Jesus" most likely referring to Jesus of Nazareth. The other "antique ...
what really happened at Masada?
... historian Josephus Flavius in his writings in The Jewish War, over 900 zealots fled Jerusalem's destruction in 70 AD to a fortress built by Herod called Masada where they held out under Roman siege until 73 AD when Roman troops ...
The archaeological importance of the study of pottery
... of mans grasp of pyrotechnology at the time in question. The building of enclosed kilns therefore is an important stage in mans development. By assessing the method of manufacture an archaeologist is able to reveal the technological development of the group of people from which the pottery ...
Neotextual narrative and the interpretation of Stonehenge
... s critique of neotextual narrative states that material culture such as Stonehenge, ironically, has objective value, given that modernism is invalid. Baudrillard uses the term 'postcapitalist textual theory' to denote a self-supporting paradox. But the primary theme of Dahmus's[1] analysis of ...
Radiocarbon Dating: Merits and Drawbacks.
... archaeologists think it should be. This is why radiocarbon dating is so important to archaeology. With the risk of professional scorn and defamation of one's ... of radiocarbon. It is incredibly fortunate that it is carbon, because carbon is present in a variety of substances including, bone, soil, iron ...
Chinese Views on Death and Dying Burial Techniques, Rituals and Beliefs of the Common Man
... James L. "Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China" The Structure of Chinese Funerary Rites: Elementary Forms, Ritual Sequence, and the Primacy of Performance (3) The sequence in which the ritual is performed is laid out perfectly and begins with public ...
Excavation is destruction." Explore with examples a range of justifications given for excavating sites.
... Roman city in Britain, they were undertaken in such a way as to preserve what was found. An archaeological excavation in tandem with geophysics has also helped archaeologists (such as Philip Barker and Graham Webster) discover possible Iron Age sites underlying the defensive walls of ...
The kind of evidence that archaeologists, anthropologists, and paleontologists study to find out how prehistoric people lived.
... of prehistoric peoples. Archaeology is a branch of anthropology that seeks to document and explain connections, changes, similarities and differences among human cultures. Archaeologists work with the material remains of cultures, past and present. These provide the only source of ...
How agriculture cropped up
... of the paper, I will focus on the site of Çatalhöyük. This site, one of the earliest settlements in the Neolithic transformation, was first excavated by James Mellaart from 1961 to 1965 and since 1993 has been excavated by British archaeologist ...
Annotated Bibliography: Evidence for a goddess cult at Catal Huyuk
... s view that archaeology cannot be completely subjective. Instead, he views archaeology, excavation and interpretation to be very objective in that the archaeologist is always having to make decisions regarding the value of excavated items. Hodder's ...