Contemporary Social Studies 2010
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Ning Brought to you by Search Sign Up Sign In Teaching Digital History using documents , images , maps and online tools Main My Page Members Photos Videos Blogs Forum All Discussions My Discussions Add Contemporary Social Studies 2010 Posted by John Lee on December 6, 2010 at 3:03pm in Visual historical inquiry View Discussions Social studies is a big and sometimes unwieldy subject . Given with the massive body of content in the field and differentiation among pedagogical approaches , social studies educators have the space to be creative and expressive . There are certainly some agreed upon aims in social studies . In fact , there is something approaching consensus that social studies should aim to prepare young people for citizenship . But , what that process entails is a point of
Five human footprints which may be 25,000-years-old have been found in Chihuahua, Mexico. The footprints correspond to three adults and a child that probably lived in the caves that are located in the sierra, in the Valle de Ahuatos, eight kilometers from the town of Creel, in Chihuahua. According to morphoscopic analysis, footprint 1, by [...]
I was just reading the latest issue of Wired on my iPad and came across this cool article which explains the math behind radiocarbon dating. Living things constantly consume carbon—through photosynthesis, for plants, and for animals, ingestion of those plants. The atmospheric ratio of carbon-14 to regular carbon-12 remains consistent at one part per trillion, [...]
A stone altar which dates back nearly 3,000 years has been found at Chalcatzingo in Mexico. “The discovery shows allow us to understand how they used their objects and how they managed to use them as part of rituals. They usually used bowls during their rituals. This was probably a place of worship, or living [...]
A new study has revealed that our common perception of how flying reptiles, such as pterosaurs, flew has been wrong all this time. The new research suggested that estimates of pterosaur wing size and shape have been wrong, and that, mechanically, the wings would have had to be crescent-shaped and angled much farther forward on [...]
New research has revealed that the famous red colour found on Pompeii frescoes were actually yellow before gases from Mount Vesuvius altered them. Sergio Omarini, who presented the institute’s findings, said: ”At the moment, there are 246 walls perceived as red, and 57 as yellow. But based on the new research, the numbers must have [...]
A new study has revealed that the metallic rainbow sheen that is the mark of a fossilized beetle actually becomes redder over time. To reveal the insects’ true colors, Yale University postdoctoral researcher Maria McNamara and her colleagues took tiny samples from beetle fossils dating back 15 million to 47 million years that were found [...]
Archaeologists have uncovered a 7,000-year-old settlement in the Dardanelles, Turkey. The settlement was 2,000 years older than Troy, Aslan said. “We know that almost all settlements older than 5,000 years ago were established on high plateaus.” The reason for the settlement pattern in high places has been questioned, he said. “This discovery gives us important [...]
A mass grave containing the remains of 42 children and 76 llamas (or alpacas) has been found buried in a sand dune in Peru. Prieto’s team suspects the children were killed as part of a religious ceremony by the Chimú culture. Famed for irrigation advances, the Chimú occupied the northern and central coasts of Peru [...]
High resolution photos of five of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been posted for free online. Click here to view them. “Some of these images are appearing for the first time in Google — what no one has seen for 2,000 years and no scholar since the Dead Sea Scrolls were found,” says James Charlesworth, director [...]
The remains of eight slaves, ranging in age from 7 to 40, have been uncovered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Some showed evidence of the hard work they performed throughout their short lives, some had poor teeth, some had childhood diseases. All were Africans or of African descent. This and much more was learned painstaking moment [...]
A luxury Roman-era home has been found in the ancient city of Smyrna in Turkey. …the 400-square-meter residence has many rooms, including a bathroom and kitchen. “The presence of numerous rooms, a bathroom and kitchen show us that a rich family must have lived here together with slaves. We see many details of their lifestyle [...]
A 90-year-old tuft of hair has been used to generate the first complete genome of an Australian Aboriginal, revealing some interesting findings. He, and perhaps all Aboriginal Australians, the genome indicates, descend from the first humans to venture far beyond Africa more than 60,000 years ago, and thousands of years before the ancestors of most [...]
Builders working in Kaikoura, New Zealand, have uncovered ancient human remains, jewellery, hand tools and ochre. The remains will be reburied in a specially designated area at Takahanga Marae, in Kaikoura. Runanga chairman Maurice Manawatu said the latest discovery was a classic example of the importance of a cultural monitor, because kaitiakitanga played an essential [...]
Two tombs, one on top of the other, containing the remains of Maya royalty have been found in Guatemala. The roughly 2,000-year-old tomb was found underneath another, 1,300-year-old tomb filled with treasures such as jade gorgets—normally used to protect the throat—beads, and ceremonial knives. The upper tomb’s corpse had been badly destroyed by rodents within [...]
Archaeologists working in Leicestershire, England, have uncovered Iron Age human remains. He believes the remains, found at Burrough on the Hill, could have belonged to an important young man who lived 200 years before the Romans arrived in Britain. Dr Taylor added it was unsual from them to come across an ancient body buried in [...]
As Tropical Storm Irene blasted through Connecticut it uncovered human remains from what may have been a Native American burial site. Part of Linden Avenue collapsed from the storm and neighbors of a beach there found what they believed were human bones protruding from the embankment that the storm eroded and called Branford police. Those bones, experts [...]
Archaeologists have uncovered a massive Roman shipyard as big as a soccer pitch. It might have been used as a base for galleys that transported emperors, like Hadrian, across the empire on their way to places like Britain. The latest discovery comes after the team found an ornate private amphitheatre at the same site two [...]
Over 40,000 artifacts, some of which date back 10,000 years, has shown that humans were living in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, year round. The idea of year-round inhabitants in Jackson Hole isn’t so far fetched. Climate models show that, 5,000 to 7,000 years ago, Jackson Hole was warmer and wetter in the summer, and colder and [...]
Several sites in the ancient city of Apamea in Syria have been damaged by vandals. Several archeological sites in the ancient city of Apamea were vandalized and pillaged by groups taking advantage of the events in Syria to excavate secretly, dig randomly and steal artifacts in secret, damaging several finds including a mosaic and the [...]
Heavy rainfall has uncovered five Mycenaean tombs in Soha, Greece. Five box-shaped Mycenaean era tombs were unearthed in Soha, near Vaskina village, some ten kilometers northwest of Leonidio, by recent heavy rainfall. The most impressive of the funerary gifts found in the graves were several clay sympotic vases. According to archaeologists, the finds dating back to the [...]
A 300-year-old tomb has been found in Vietnam which is remarkably small. The outer coffin was 107cm in length, 36cm in width and 40cm in height, while the inner coffin was 94.5cm in length, 27.3cm in width and 33.4cm in height. The compound was said to consist of lime, molasses, sand and charcoal with a [...]
8,000-year-old human skulls impaled on stakes have been found in Sweden. The rituals at Kanaljorden were conducted on a massive stone pavement constructed on the bottom of a shallow lake (currently a peat fen). Some crania were fairly intact while others were found as isolated fragments. The more intact ones represent eleven individuals, both men [...]
The earliest record of beavers existing in North America has been found in Oregon. An archaeologist discovered two fossil teeth on the boundary of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument near Dayville that represent the earliest record of a beaver in North America. The molar and premolar — back teeth — were below an [...]
Satellite imagery has revealed thousands of geoglyphs in Jordan. Referred to by archaeologists as “wheels,” these stone structures have a wide variety of designs, with a common one being a circle with spokes radiating inside. Researchers believe that they date back to antiquity, at least 2,000 years ago. They are often found on lava fields [...]