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Hi, I have a question about authenticity of statues and artefacts. How can archaeologists determine the age of a statue discovered at a site? Is it possible to tell whether it is genuinely "old" or a fake? For example , a statue carved from rocks 🪨 is claimed to be from 5000 bce. How can we prove this is true? Please help me. Thank you.
Archaeologists focus on time, space, and form and it is the combination of data about space and form that help establish age of an item (time). Context is the most valuable information available for ascertaining the age of an item or artifact. This is why archaeologists dig very carefully and record as much information about stratigraphy (layering) and the spatial positioning of artifacts and features. Often when an item is removed from its context it makes determining age very challenging or even impossible. But, comparisons can also be effective, as in the case of projectile points that conform closely to the same type -- for example if one is found in association with datable organic material at a site (perhaps from a hearth) it can then be used as a reference for projectile points of the same type that are found out of context, such as the surface of a plowed field.
There’s a complicated multi faceted style of art that goes unrecognized by modern humans. Citizens all over the country are sharing this. People are becoming more aware-academia will catch up soon ❤
Didn't ancient man use soft rocks such as soapstone, gypsum, and dolomite about a million times more than chert or hardstone? That's what the books say. Didn't ancient man remove flakes from chert from the center of the piece outward for a couple million years before the advent of lapidary knapping? Again, just what the books say. These are questions
Good questions! This video is a good flintknapping demonstration -- shows that it is an edge-focused technique: www.google.com/search?q=flint-knapping+demonstration&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1042US1042&oq=flint-knapping+demonstration&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l3j0i390i512i650l4.7034j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c7f9baee,vid:f2CcHYuOEsE,st:0 Softer rocks would definitely have been used for items like pipes and pendants that were produced by grinding rather than flaking. Harder rocks like chert are suitable for making durable cutting edges.
Hallo. Can you help me which DNA Test i could do to test which tribe i am? My Grandfather was an Nativ Amerikan and he was in 2. WORLDWAR a Solder and was than living in Heilbronn in Germany City some years. Than he was going back. But i dont were he was going. It would help me a lot to find my roots. Greetings from the heart
Thank you! I appreciate your knowledge - and you sharing it. I have the cattails, bur I think I'm going to have to substitute the basswood for some other type of bark. I'm assuming that these plantss all grow together somewhere. I live just outside Yosemite, if you or anyone else reads this, do you know if basswood grows up here?
Thank you for sharing this! It’s fascinating. I’ve watched more cord-making videos than I’d like to admit, and I’ve never seen this technique. It looks so much more efficient and ergonomic.
I'm glad you mentioned ground stone tools at the end. Its vastly understudy and really provides a wealth of new perspectives from which to respect the technology of the paleoindian era. It's the one area that offers a view of the crafters design, the characters of the material, and the way it was used. We can tell a boat builders hammer, from a logging wedge. We can place their lives in different contexts by thinking about the heavier tools they designed and made from ground stones. The use of crushed rock of the same type and a wooden mortar to hollow out a large stone. The making of wheels and parabolic shapes by picking and grinding. Hope you do one on ground stone tools.
I'm familiar with Effigy Mounds and the Toolsburg Mounds. Trying to find information about the other remaining Mound Sites in IA has proven to be difficult. Does anyone know of a good reference to find other sites in the State? Thank you
"With Liberty and Justice For All," Except for them, those people over there, them, them, oh, and them also. Besides those little inconvenient facts, the US is built on a foundation of (sand) freedom. Excellent information, I would really like to visit some Adena/Hopewell Mound culture sites. I am absolutely fascinated by history, especially in my own back yard. Hope to see a new video one day👍. Thanks
"With Liberty and Justice for all," except for them, them, them, and them.. What a shameful and atrocious period in this lands history. The Native population at one time, was in the millions. They were pretty much all wiped out and for the historical truth of what happened, crickets... We're taught a whitewashed government approved version. "His tory is a group of lies, agreed upon by the victors." Qoute accredited to Jefferson, but it was probably said first by a Native.. Happy to stumble upon these videos, these are great.
