Question: How do archaeologists use oral history? Oral History: Oral history refers to the history shared and passed down in cultures with an oral tradition. It can also refer to histories told between people that are simply not recorded in official written records. ...
Archaeologists have used a variety of techniques to make sense of the past: Self-dating: An item like a coin already comes with a date -- no questions asked. Relative dating: The date of an unknown item can be interpreted by the known dates of surrounding items. Clay-varve counting: Man...
Urban order is maintained by the intersection of institutions and generative forces within cities. While this claim has become rather commonplace in the social sciences, it is still a new idea in archaeology. Archaeologists have only recently begun to explore how top-down and bottom-up forces oper...
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(CEREGE) in Aix-en-Provence, France, says that historians and archaeologists had previously relied on ancient texts and illustrations, along with aerial photographs of the region today, to work out how this causeway was built and how difficult it was to do. "These theories were not backed ...
initiative. They’ve also revealed the shortcomings of their methods: “Historians are limited to source documents. When it comes to maroons, there isn’t that much on paper. But that doesn’t mean their story should be ignored or overlooked. As archaeologists, we can read it in the ...
It’s believed the current structure was built on top of the other one. Both sit on top of an underground cenote cave filled with water. Archaeologists continue studying the site, and you may be able to see some of their excavations as we did behind the main pyramid....
Meanwhile, historians and archaeologists continued to unearth what was lost for decades. In October, a mass grave in an Oklahoma cemetery was discovered that could be the remains of at least a dozen identified and unidentified African American massacre victims. ...
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