...The Chinese Bronze Age began in 1700 B.C along the banks of the Yellow River in China. Throughout time this region emerged as a center of advanced and literate cultures of the time. During the Neolithic age, people used tools made of stone. For the Bronze Age, this was a beginning of flourishing metals and developing techniques. It’s not clear where the producing and crafting of metals began in China. The idea of early bronze working developed freely out of outside influences. The era of the Shang and the Zhou dynasties was known as the Bronze Age of China, for bronze was used to craft weapon, parts of chariots, and ritual vessels, each played a role in the material culture. After the use of bronze, Iron came toward the end of the period, during the Eastern Zhou dynasty. Along with the many culture uses of bronze, there were also...
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...Abstract: An ongoing project for reconstructing the behavior of the geomagnetic field intensity during the last seven millennia has yielded several new dates for archaeometallurgical sites in the Southern Levant. These dates shed new light on the dawn of metallurgy in the region as well as on the quality of technological development and its relation to social and political structures. This paper introduces the methodology and concepts behind the archaeomagnetic project as well as the principles of the applied dating technique. In addition, the paper presents the archaeomagnetic results, discusses the alternative dating of several archaeometallurgical sites and explores the implication of these results on our understanding of the interaction between technology and society in the past. For the latter, the results particularly challenge the "Standard View of Technology" (Pfaffenberger, 1992), and suggest a complex, nonlinear evolution of copper industry in the Southern Levant eScholarship provides open access, scholarly publishing services to the University of California and delivers a dynamic research platform to scholars worldwide. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Technology and Society: Some Insights on the Development of Metallurgy in the Southern Levant in the Light of New Dates of Slag Deposits A Thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in Anthropology by Erez Ben-Yosef...
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...As I enter my first college class, my attention goes to Professor Feldman, a tall, slender woman in a loose pearl blouse with black dress pants. The combination of her graceful stance and scholarly presence distinguishes her already from the chaos of the lecture room. The calm demeanor spreads through the room as she gradually turns the lights down low, signaling the beginning of lecture, and gives life to the art historian’s companion, the slide projector. Her slow and steady speech is punctuated by inflections at nearly every other word and reflects her scholarly presence. She picks her words carefully and you can sense the moment’s thought before each. Her precisely chosen words make each one valuable as I frantically try to catch them all. Feldman incorporates her elevated vocabulary in daily speech and lecture, requiring that I form my own vocabulary list: mélange, koine, cache, lingua franca, etc. In spite of being intimidated by Professor Feldman’s scholarship, the fellow human being, Marian Feldman, shows through at times. She does not hesitate to admit “When did those excavations take place?” or “Who was that guy who ruled Babylon? I never remember that one.” At one point she might exclaim, “Well, it doesn’t matter anyway” followed by a signature chuckle. She welcomes corrections or additions by students, and some questions lead her to guiltily admit, “You caught me. I was trying to avoid that one because, well, we just don’t...
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...My research paper is about the Greek Titan Kronos also known in Greek as Cronus or Saturn in Latin. According to pop culture, he is depicted as a monster who was the father of the Olympians. He was also the king of the Titans, who were overthrown by their own children the Olympians in Greek mythology. Today when we read the Greek myths about him, all we really know about him is his ending. We barely know how his life started and what he was like in the middle of his life. The purpose of this paper is to describe the rise and collapse of Kronos, the god of time and King of Titans. The Titans’ timeline was rather brief in comparison to the Olympians in Greek mythology. However, they have a very strong story about their creation. In the...
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...Week 4 Assignment 1: Mysteries of the Trojans Alicia Robinson HUM 110 – World Cultures I Strayer University Dr. Bull October 31, 2013 Mysteries of the Trojans In the following paper, I will attempt to explain the mysteries surrounding the lost city of Troy, the Trojan soldiers, the Trojan War and the famous story about the Trojan horse. This paper will show why I believe that sometimes myths may not be merely myths at all, but may actually have more validity to them than one may think. These so called myths should not be so easily dismissed and I will try to explain why I truly believe this. The mysteries concerning these stories are the basis of the Homeric tales, the Odysseus, and the Iliad, written by a man whom history calls Homer, but no one is even sure if this was his name or maybe even his profession. There are many theories surrounding this alone. Many claim that he was a blind man and may be a descendent of singer, story tellers. Before Homer, epic stories were memorized and then sung. These were in fact true accounts of history, not like songs that are sung today. The Homeric stories are some of the oldest written stories of all time, (dating back to around 800 B.C.E.). The Trojan War is believed, (by scholars), to have taken place between 1800 and 1300 B.C.E., but the first written accounts were not written until, some five centuries later, after the Greeks adopted the Phoenician writing system. Stories, until then, had been handed down...
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...invented at the University of California, Berkeley and reported very little in the papers about four years ago. Today, the technique is spreading quickly across the world. The discovery of such technique was such a momentous event that Science, a journal, named it “the breakthrough of the year.” With this tool, scientists have better access to understand how the genes and cells in our body work. It helps to open the doors to research that would have been too expensive to do without this new editing technique. Crispr-Cas...
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...Josephine Baker was an African American dancer, actress, pop music and jazz singer who was known for by multiple nicknames such as the “Bronze Venus”, “Black Pearl”, “Jazz Cleopatra”, and the “Creole Goddess”. Baker was a thrilling entertainer. More than that, she was the 20th Century’s first international black female sex symbol. The resume of Ms. Baker does not end after being known as an enticing erotic performer, she was also known for becoming an activist in the Civil Rights Movement. After reading this research paper, we will hold a better understanding of how Ms. Josephine Baker impacted American society against racism while being a sex symbol. Freda Josephine McDonald was born on June 3, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri. Growing...
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...Justin Kruczek 830793223 Paper 1 Residential Burial Sites Residential Burial Sites Upon conducting my research, I found multiple sites that I will be referencing in my paper. The main purpose of this paper is to inform people about the residential burial methods used in Thailand and Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico. In one of the articles I found it describes residential burials by saying, “Residential burial” or “intramural burial” has often been used to denote subfloor or other types of burials within residential structures, such as those within structure walls. (Residential Burial in Global Perspective Ron L. Adams Simon Fraser University and Stacie M. King Indiana University, PG. 3) This is to give a basic idea on what will be further discussed in this paper. In the article that was found, there were multiple burial sites where archeologists found remains and burial methods all over Thailand. These places in Thailand where they found these residential burial sites are, “The mortuary remains from most of these low mound sites including Ban Kao (Sørensen 1967), Non Nok Tha (Bayard 1984, 1996–97), Ban Na Di (Higham and Kijngam 1984a, 1984b, 1984c), Khok Phanom Di (Higham and Thosarat 1994:23), Nong Nor (Higham and Thosarat 1998), Ban Wang Hai (Pautreau et al. 2001), Ban Lum Khao (Higham and O’Reilly 2004:301), Noen U-Loke (Talbot 2007:305), and Ban Non Wat (Higham 2008, 2009a; Higham and Thosarat 2006), have all been discussed explicitly in terms of being “cemeteries” (Residential...
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...Final research paper Art history Beth mchale Mrs Cozad 14th December, 2015 Christian art and architecture has been developed dramatically though out the centuries, from Early Christian through the Gothic eras. There are four classification in the development of Cristian art: Early Christian and Byzantine, Early Medieval, Late Medieval—Romanesque and Late Medieval—Gothic. Art and architecture from these periods all tell stories from that specific time in life, they give factual knowledge on the information that we have today, allowing us to relate to these time periods. The first era in which is going to be spoke about is the Early Christian and Byzantine time period of 500-1000. In the Early Christian and Byzantine time...
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...invention of writing systems. Prehistory refers to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it can refer to all the time preceding human existence and the invention. The term "prehistory" can refer to the vast span of time since the beginning of the Universe, but more often it refers to the period since life appeared on Earth, or even more specifically to the time since human-like beings appeared.[4][5] In dividing up human prehistory, prehistorians typically use the three-age system, whereas scholars of pre-human time periods typically use the well-defined geologic record and its internationally defined stratum base within the geologic time scale. The three-age system is the periodization of human prehistory into three consecutive time periods, named for their respective predominant tool-making technologies: the Stone Age, Bronze age and iron age.. "Paleolithic" means "Old Stone...
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...Fulfilled………………………………………………………….page 6 Antiochus IV………………………………………………………………...Page 7 Antichrist…………………………………………………………………… page 8 Summary………………………………………………………………………page 9 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………….page 11 Bibliography …………………………………………………………………..page 12 You have no page numbers showing. See the sample paper and Turabian for correct formatting. introduction Daniel, a contemporary of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, went into captivity to Babylon in 605B.C. when he was around fifteen years old. Jeremiah warned that the Lord would was sending the Babylonians to punish Judah. In 605 B.C. , Nebuchadnezzar led the Babylonian army to victory over the Eygptians at Carchemish, establishing control over Syria and northern Israel. Then he marched south and took some exiles including Daniel.1 “The Book of Daniel is not only one of the most intriguing works in the Bible, but it is also filled with timeless truths that are just as relevant to modern believers as they were to those who first heard them.”2 In this research paper we are going to assert that Daniel foresees the antichrist who will appear at the end of the age. There is much controversy about the antichrist. Who is he? Was he Hitler or Mussolini or some other despot that persecuted and...
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...logical thinkers. However, this strange scene from a Charlie Chaplin’s 1928 film, “The Circus” where a woman seems to be telegraphing or rather phoning who looks as an unscrupulously dressed Martha Stewart, is surely a voyager from the vortex of time and space (Sawyer, 2010). How can one little technological devise come to matter so much. Technology, cell phone and texting, have made a major impact to personal lives both positive and negative, and is preferred over in-person human encounters. History over time is defined by new technology used. In each age a significant impact has attributed to the advancement in the civilization of mankind. Humanity has moved from prehistoric times into the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. During modern times, the ages defined as the Industrial Revolution, the age of steam, the steel age, the age of the automobile, and the computer age. With every new age, the people developed and used the new technology could dominate militarily or economically (Technology 2005). Technology has changed the face of modern day civilization. Technology has inundated grade schools colleges and universities with the use of online communication for teaching and learning. One of the most common online communication tools used in schools and universities is the asynchronous online discussion (AOD) forum. AOD allows and provides students the flexibility of participating in a discussion 24 hours a day, regardless of geographical...
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...Superlative to the olden times, the primitive history of humanity comprises the invention of writing, approximately 5500 years ago somewhere between the Middle Paleolithic to the very beginning of the Bronze age. This invention enabled us for the first time to see our thoughts before us and lead us to the first revolution in the history of human communication – invention of hieroglyphs. Those hieroglyph were amended into symbols and syllabary gradually. Many of our letters have a long pictorial memoirs. For instance, letter A. It wasn't really invented but more evolved. With the graphemic typefaces, started the second revolution in the history of human communication – invention of the printing press and papers. These innovations changed the functionality of our brain and we split it into the left part that is used now to reading and thinking and the right part is still involved in pictures and feelings. This split brain creates an enormous experiment in humanity one of which lead us to the third revolution in the history of human communication -invention of computer mediated communications. It actually started bartering face-to-face emotional...
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...Three Kingdoms Period of Korea The Three Kingdoms period of Korea is an important part of world history. This research paper will describe the three kingdoms of Korea, from 57 Before Common Era until 688 Common Era into the Unified Silla Kingdom period. The history and art from these periods will be discussed in order to show the impact it has had on the Korean culture. This paper will show the Influence China had when the Koreans created their empire and works of art. The Three Kingdoms period of Korea began in 57 BCE due, in part, to the Chinese occupation of the western peninsula. There were many tribes in Korea, prior to 100 BCE, when the Chinese fought and gained control of the western peninsula. The strongest of all the Korean tribes were migratory hunters known as the Koguryo tribe. (Korean Enigma, 2004). The Koguryo tribe was a difficult adversary for the Chinese and made it difficult to for them to keep their stronghold. The Chinese were forced to leave their three outposts in Korea, giving the territory back to the Koguryo tribe. The Koguryo tribe overtook the Chinese, Okcho and Ye tribes, and incorporated them into their own. The powerful Koguryo tribe continued battling the Chinese and eventually conquered half of Manchuria. (Korean Enigma, 2004). The Han Tribes also occupied Korea during this period. With the defeat of the Chinese, the Hans branched out and formed two separate kingdoms, Paekche and Silla. The Three Kingdoms of Korea included Koguryo, Paekche...
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...Iqra Mirza August 10, 2011 English Composition 1 Professor Clark Research Paper Intermarriage and Interracial Among Foreign Intermarriage is the marriage between partners who are from different social, racial, religious, ethnic or cultural backgrounds. Intermarriage is also known as interracial marriage, interfaith marriage, and endogamy etc. This can be between any Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist or any other religion. Therefore, intermarriage affects how children are raised, a person’s religious way of life, and can lead to possible family rejection. Intermarriage is one sign of the adaptation of a foreign population in their country. Such marriage, however, often meet numerous difficulties, from discrimination to cultural tensions between the husband and wife. Racial intermarriage involves the added difficulty of different racial backgrounds, which also create cases of discrimination and problems fitting into the community. Though mixed couples are often analyze and put under great pressure from their families and society, the meaning of intermarriage, interreligious, and interracial will maintain to grow and it can have a very positive effect on the families formed. Intermarriage causes many problems to the couples who are in these relationships. Interfaith couples, who are of different religions, tend to live together in common law rather than in holy matrimony. According to a study made in 2006, 452,000 couples in Canada were of interrelationships...
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