The Field Research Procedure this paper focuses on covers excavations between 1983 and 1993 by Martin Carver. The Field Research Procedure assumes that archaeological data cannot be discovered but are defined and collected as a result of archaeologically informed choice. Data are variables which are chosen
Jamestown is a place where a lot of death happened. People died from starvation, disease, saltwater poisoning, dehydration, and attacks from the Indians and Spaniards. 13,000 Indians lived around Jamestown. When the people that lived in Jamestown set sail with 108 men they arrived at an island. When they got there they expected the Indians to welcome their arrival but instead they killed some of the men.
Introduction Being a nearly lifelong resident of Ozark Mountains of Missouri, I have always been fascinated by the many interesting legends and tales that have been shared with me by many of the various characters that I have had the opportunity of meeting over the years. Tales of the Civil War, lost Spanish Treasure Caves, Notorious Outlaws, Bushwhackers and many fascinating characters that once roamed these ancient hills and hollers. Some of my favorites are stories that transpired along a stretch of road that folks here in the Ozarks refer to as the “Old Wire Road.” What we now refer to as the “Old Wire Road,” wasn’t always a road, but rather a series of ancient trails used for migration and trade by several Indian tribes over many generations. The
On December 16, 1965, the
Serpent Mound- The creators of the Serpent Mound were Native Americans possibly part of the Mississippi tribes. The Serpent Mounds was dated from 400 to 1100 CE of a formed impacted crater. Module 2 states, “the Serpent Mound was constructed to honor the cosmic rhythms through its form and structure”. The mound is made of several layers which are stone, clay, ash and top soil.
In the beginning of the
The people who built the mound didn’t leave any written word making this a hard puzzle to crack. The possibilities are really endless as to what this could tell us about this ancient culture knowledge. Some thoughts have ranged from a snake swallowing an egg, a snake throwing something up some have even said it’s the serpent from the Garden of Eden about to eat a fruit (Wohlfarth, 2007). Bengston, as mentioned in What Lies Beneath (2007), had a thought about the formation of The Serpent Mound, “Hailey’s Comet’s appeared in 1066A.D.; this mound was built around 1070 A.D. So maybe this is a great serpent chasing the sun.”
”(online.norwich.edu). The College of Norwich explains that the dirt from all the digging that they did had went into
With multiple theories on what the mound maybe is it is impossible to know whether it was a natural creation or a manmade creation. In addition to this, the scholarly footnotes also contradict what the narrator says what happened in the story. For instance, on Page 288 the narrator claims that Zaceus Stokes personally told him that the recently deceased Mose Pickett had come out of his grave and was living again. While the scholarly footnotes state Zaceus Stokes had “No records of his recounting of the Tims Creeks tale exists, nor do witnesses confirm his ever having discussed it”. With these two contradicting statements, it is impossible to know for sure if the events in the story occurred.
When the ice sheets opened up in Canada sometime around the late Pleistocene, humans began flooding in, ushering in the human era of modern day United States. This paper’s main focus is on the pre-history of Memphis, Tennessee, mainly the people and the culture that they create or bring with them. Due to little being known to distinguish the area the size of a modern city from the rest of the pre-historical world, much of the focus of the very early history is on the Middle Mississippi Valley, including the very earliest Paleo-Indians and the slightly later Dalton peoples. Once people become more complex and large populations start to gather in smaller regions, it is possible to distinguish specific groups within a region. The Chucalissians
Merton in 1957 (Johnson, 2010). Lewis .R. Binford was among the first archaeologists to employ middle range theory in archaeology (Atici, 2005). Middle-range research attempts to link the low-range static traces of past behavior with their high-range, dynamic causal processes including biological, ecological and behavioral factors, through a series of relational analogies that comprise the middle-range (Binford, 1981). Middle Range Theory was used in this study because it helps deducing aspects concerning early hominid behavior such as that of meat eating, early hominid subsistence patterns and the like (Binford, 1981; Saanane, 2004; Shipman, 1986; Gifford-Gonzalez, 1991).
