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19 Th Century Homo Erectus
1,531 wordsAnthropologists and Archaeologists Anthropologists and archaeologists have influenced our lives in so many ways. They have taken us back to our most humble beginnings. They have given us an awareness of just how far we have come through the centuries. Archaeology is the investigating of life by unearthing and interpreting the objects left behind by earlier peoples and cultures, dating back to prehistoric times. Anthropology is the scientific study of hominids, their physical features, developmen...
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Rio Grande Prentice Hall
2,279 words... peoples, who would occupy their place on the Colorado Plateau and the northern Rio Grande basin about A. D. 700. In the style of their ancestors, the new Anasazi Pueblo peoples acknowledged change with reflection, over many decades, implementing new concepts at changeable rates in various areas rather than in synchronization across their cultural region. Reflecting growing populations and increasing crop yields, they started building still larger and now more nearly enduring villages, which ...
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000 Years Ago 10 000 Years
1,302 wordsCastles in the sea Graham Hancock doesnt look mad as he sprawls in an armchair in his small, neat house in Kennington, south London. But his critics would say appearances deceive: he is either a lunatic, a charlatan, or both. Hancock has spent the past 10 years writing books and producing TV programmes which argue that everything we are told about ancient history is wrong: civilisation didnt start in Sumeria and Egypt around 3, 500 BC; it began 10, 000 years before in great cities which subseque...
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Valley Of The Kings Pharaoh
1,905 wordsEgyptologists had lost interest in the site of tomb 5, which had been explored and looted decades ago. Therefore, they wanted to give way to a parking lot. However, no one would have ever known the treasure that lay only 200 ft. from King Tut? s resting place which was beyond a few rubble strewn rooms that previous excavators had used to hold their debris. Dr. Kent Weeks, an Egyptologist with the American University in Cairo, wanted to be sure the new parking facility wouldn? t destroy anything ...
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Rhodesian Ruins Great Zimbabwe People
850 wordsThis GREAT ZIMBABWE This article which I have chosen to read, is about a ruined city of southeast Zimbabwe south of Harare. Great Zimbabwe is an ancient city on the plateau in sub-Saharan Africa. Great Zimbabwe was supposedly a city that controlled much trade and culture of southern Africa during the 12 th and 17 th centuries because it was stationed on the shortest route between the northern gold fields, and the Indian Ocean. Archaeologists believed that this masterful stonework was built somew...
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Tutankhamun Tomb Egyptian Pharaoh
1,326 wordsTOMB OF TUTANKHAMUN The most famous Egyptian pharaoh today is, King Nebkheperuru Tutankhamun. Tutankhamun is also known as King Tut. The name Tutankhamun is derived from hieroglyphics which means Living Image of Amun. He was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18 th dynasty, he also was the son in law of Akhenaton. Tutankhamun was not a important King, he is well known because of his tomb, containing beautiful treasures. King Nebkheperuru Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered by an British archaeologists How...
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