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Did you catch our #DayofArch post? Thanks to all who organize and contribute to The Day of Archaeology!
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Vintage Hunk of the day - COWBOY! Aka Land Pirate. His hips do not lie. 1890. They don’t make ‘em like the used to. He’s got mad swag. I think his name must have been Constantine McGruff.
Real diary post coming later.
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I found this to be a very insightful and interesting question which was asked as part of an assignment for my applied anthropology unit.
Numerous activities, such as hunting, gathering, exercise and more obviously fighting, can inflict damage or adaptions onto to a skeletal system. Some physical activities can be easily identified by due to the damage they can produce to the skeleton (fighting) whereas the skeletons adaptation to strain caused by sport or a daily activity can be harder to detect. Click here to read the full post on All Things AAFS!
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Taken from a very interesting assignment on a topic that kept creeping up in every year of my degree.
An anthropologist can obtain a wide and varied collection of information from examining teeth, such as; paleodiets and paleoenvironments from studying a population, and how old a person was at time of death or whether a person was pregnant/ill from studying an individual.
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Archaeologists have found the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in the rainforests of eastern Mexico. They hope the site, which is thought to cover 54 acres, will provide clues as to why the Mayan civilisation collapsed over a thousand years ago. Elise Wicker reports.
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Archaeologists have found the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in the rainforests of eastern Mexico. They hope the site, which is thought to cover 54 acres, will provide clues as to why the Mayan civilisation collapsed over a thousand years ago. Elise Wicker reports.
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Digital History Taking Off with the Decoding of the Mayan Script
This article is a few days old now, but it’s just such a cool example of how the digital world can…
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Best Cumbrian blog in my opinion. A goldmine of knowledge, oft unknown and peculiar, on Cumbrian archeology, history, folklore and other vital information.
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Statue from Antikythera Shipwreck exhibit, National Archaeology Museum, Athens
The exhibit also contains a mechanism recovered in 82 pieces that scholars are calling the world’s first computer.
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