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What is the Maya Calendar?

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:00:08 PST

The Maya were the first civilization to keep written historical records in the New World. They wrote using hieroglyphs with ideographic and phonetic elements. The Maya had several calendars. The...

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Painted Caves: Pech Merle

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:00:06 PST

The Pech Merle cave is close to the Cabrerets village in France. Pech comes from the French word puèg that means hill. As for Merle, the origin is unknown. The cave has no signs of prehistoric use in...

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Origins, Evolution, and Destruction: Natural vs Artificial Selection

noreply@blogger.com (Jose-Pierre Estrada) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:00:06 PST

Evolution is the process by which populations of organisms acquire and pass on traits from generation to generation, affecting the overall makeup of the population and even leading to the emergence...

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The Lost World of Lake Vostok

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:00:03 PST

Lake Vostok, image courtesy of NASA One of the most mysterious places on Earth... "It sometimes seems as if our planet has no secrets left – but deep beneath the great Antarctic ice sheet...

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Site Formation Processes

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:00:13 PST

There are two recognized site formation processes that help answer archaeologists’ questions about where dirt came from, if objects were made by humans, and why ancient people left the objects...

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Mythology vs Religion

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:00:05 PST

History is full of legends, folklore, fables, and myths. Each of these is unique. So, what is mythology? Myths are stories of the gods outside of the human world that took place in the remote past....

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Chronological Methods: Obsidian Hydration Dating

noreply@blogger.com (Jose-Pierre Estrada) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:00:06 PST

Obsidian Flake Copyright: Melanie Magdalena Volcanic glass is known as obsidian. Humans in the past often used obsidian as a raw material when making chipped stone tools like arrowheads and spear...

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Who Built Stonehenge?

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:00:05 PST

Stonehenge, Wikipedia Commons Stonehenge, located on the Salisbury Plain in Southern England, has long been associated with Druids, a group of wise men present in England more than 2000 years ago....

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Africa's Colonial Borders: In the Process of Costly Change

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:00:16 PST

Guest Blog by Richard Chowning While some people are still under the erroneous impression that Africa is a country, the vast majority are unaware that the borders that delineate the...

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The Nazca Lines: Ancient Geoglyphs

noreply@blogger.com (Jose-Pierre Estrada) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:09:26 PST

Nazca Monkey Maria Reiche, Wikipedia Commons The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs over 660 ft. across located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. Scholars believe the Nazca Lines were...

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Great Riddles in Archaeology: The Legendary King Arthur

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:51:25 PST

There are stories about the great King Arthur of Camelot, a man of honor, duty, and self-sacrifice. King Arthur and Camelot are a riddle for every age. (All dates referenced in this article...

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Field Expertise, A Universal Medium of Communication

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:00:05 PST

Image courtesy toponlinecolleges.com Language is what we consider essential for communication. Every culture has its own distinct dialect. Some languages are more "common" than others. They...

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Conquistadors: The Invasion of the New World

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:00:10 PST

The conquistadors arrived in the New World in the 1500s and set about massacring, interbreeding, and converting natives to Christianity. The following documentary, Conquistadors, tells the...

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Tips to Make Green Architecture Sustainable

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:00:04 PST

Jenny Huang via Flickr Living green is the trend in today's society. Buying smaller cars, recycling, and planting trees makes everyone feel as though they are doing their part in sustaining the...

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Ashoka Maurya - An Example to Follow

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:41:29 PST

Ashoka Maurya (304 - 232 BCE) PBS © 2008 MayaVision International Ashoka Maurya (Aśoka in Sanskrit), also known as Ashoka the Great, reined as a “righteous king” (dhammaraja) during the...

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Liberty of Experssion = Anti-PIPA/SOPA

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:32:01 PST

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

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Civilizations Around the World: The Mauryan Empire

noreply@blogger.com (Jose-Pierre Estrada) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:00:20 PST

indianmapsonline.com The Mauryan Empire began as one of the many kingdoms in ancient India during the 4th century BC. It began with only control of present day Bengal and later the entire of...

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Caddoan Mounds - Facts and Mystery

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:00:09 PST

Table courtesy Wikipedia [Heironymous Rowe/Alexrk] The prehistoric Caddo Indian culture existed in the open prairie 1,200 years ago. These people built ceremonial, temple, and burial mounds. Three...

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Ontario Pleistocene: The Ice Age Horse Debate

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:08:09 PST

Retrieval site, Lake Erie, Southern Ontario Image courtesy of Jarrod Barker Some of the most interesting finds in archaeology are discovered by amateurs. Jarrod Barker, publisher of www.thesilo.ca,...

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Sites Under Threat

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:00:00 PST

Archaeological sites are in danger. Without proper care, sites are worn away and disappear. The Archaeological Institute of America has identified 3 sites that are currently in danger... Volume...

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The CCC: Bringing People Together

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:00:01 PST

Franklin D. Roosevelt started the first mass movement for environmental protection in 1932 with the CCC created by the New Deal. "In his first 100 days in office, President Roosevelt approved...

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The Five-stone Circle of Lettergorman

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:00:13 PST

The following article is a guest blog contribution by Jonathan G 'ODonoghue, originally published on Our Irish Heritage, (January 11, 2012). We send our thanks to Jonathan for allowing...

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History of Architecture: The Ancient Pyramids to the Steel Buildings of Today

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:00:08 PST

History of Architecture The Ancient Pyramids to the Steel Buildings of Today Guest Blog by Simon Marshall Architecture is a practice that has been around since before recorded history and...

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Civilizations Around the World: The Inca

noreply@blogger.com (Jose-Pierre Estrada) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:00:14 PST

The Inca Empire: Rise and Fall The Inca Empire Image courtesy of EuroHistory Teacher, Wikipedia Commons The Incas began as a hill tribe from Peru. Over a course of 300 years, they...

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Finding Your Inner Flow

noreply@blogger.com (Melanie Magdalena) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:45:26 PST

Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a...

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