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
Stone tools which date back to the Holocene era have been discovered in northwestern Mexico. The objects were found at an archaeological site known as El Coyote, located in the Los Cabos region, the INAH said, adding that they “bolster the hypothesis” that the first colonists of the hemisphere populated the region via watercraft migration, [...]
The pirate Blackbeard’s 300-year-old cannon has been raised from the ocean floor off the coast of North Carolina. [Thx Mike!] The eight-foot-long cannon was covered in sand and ocean debris called “concretion,” which will take archaeologists and students at East Carolina University as many as eight years to crack through before getting to the metal [...]
Two ancient depictions of childbirth, the first of its kind ever found, have been discovered on a fragment of pottery in Italy. An archaeological excavation at Poggio Colla, the site of a 2,700-year-old Etruscan settlement in Italy’s Mugello Valley, has turned up a surprising and unique find: two images of a woman giving birth to [...]
Construction work in Turkey has unearthed an 850-square-meter mosaic. Archaeological treasures, including a large mosaic, have been found during drilling at a construction site for a new hotel in the southern province of Hatay. The mosaic found during the drilling is 850 square meters and estimated to be the largest mosaic discovered in Turkey. As [...]
Six cannons found in the moat surrounding Kurassaare Castle in Estonia are set to get the restorative treatment. The preliminary restoration work is currently underway and, according to Peets, there is even a chance that three of the guns may become functional, wrote Meie Maa. The cannons, currently lined up in front of the castle, [...]
The remains of a body which dates back to the 17th century have been found underneath a street in Dublin, Ireland. Bones from the skeleton were uncovered by builders working on enhancement projects in the Smithfield area of the city. They notified archaeologists, who arrived to preserve the remains which are thought to date from [...]
100,000-year-old kits using to process ochre into paint have been found in South Africa. In this study, Christopher Henshilwood of the University of Bergen in Norway and his colleagues report two ochre-processing “toolkits” at Blombos, dated to 100,000 years ago with a technique called optically stimulated luminescence, which measures how long grains of sand in [...]
The latest excavations at Göbeklitepe in Turkey shows that the residents of the site had a belief system over 12,000 years ago. Göbeklitepe includes many temples and archaeological works from the Neolithic era. Kürkçüo?lu evaluated the excavation, which is being carried out by Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmidt from the Berlin Germany Archaeology Institute. The latest [...]
Three sets of ancient remains have been found in a remote region of Australia. This is where our most important law men were buried,” said Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation chief executive Michael Woodley, a senior law man and respected tribal elder. He led healing ceremonies for his people near one burial cave after rock movement – [...]
Researchers are now using a DNA-based method to determine the contents of ancient amphorae. Shipwrecks and other sites have yielded plenty of intact amphorae. Maddeningly, nearly all are empty, devoid of obvious clues to what they once held. Researchers have scraped bits of ceramic from the vessel’s interior to look for leftover genetic material. In [...]
New research suggests that by sailing to the New World, Chrisotpher Columbus and the explorers that followed him may have triggered climate cooling in Europe. The European conquest of the Americas decimated the people living there, leaving large areas of cleared land untended. Trees that filled in this territory pulled billions of tons of carbon [...]
Scientists have genetically mapped the bacterium responsible for the Black Death. Mapping Black Death marks the first time an ancient pathogen has been reconstructed in its entirety and will allow researchers to track changes in its evolution and virulence over time. The study, published in the science journal Nature, sheds light on how epidemics develop [...]
A rare iron foundry which dates back to the 1700s has been found during a dig in northwestern England. The foundry buildings are shown arranged around three sides of a courtyard with three large roadside buildings and the iron-monger shops to the north. Excavation revealed evidence of two large rooms, one which would have been [...]
A piece of a ship believe to have come from a boat which ran aground 200 years ago has been found in the Connecticut River. The historical object was discovered this past summer while the state Department of Environmental Protection was dragging nets for sturgeon research on the Connecticut River just south of Essex. Apparently, [...]
An 800-year-old stone adze has been found at the location of an ancient Maori village underneath a demolished post office in New Zealand. Because of the nature of the soil at the post office site, no evidence of wooden structures, including waka, remained as they would have rotted, Couch said. However, the midden showed evidence [...]
A study of skeletal remains suggests that the Inca grew their empire through politics and alliances rather than through violence. “It appears that the Inca relied less on warfare to conquer other groups and more on political alliances, bloodless takeovers and ideological control tactics,” Andrushko says. An Inca conquest gambit mentioned in some Spanish accounts [...]
The mud brick remains of what may be the oldest Roman Catholic church in Peru have been uncovered near Piura. The church outside the northern coastal city of Piura was built in 1534 but its mud walls deteriorated over time as Spanish conquistadors abandoned the area, said archaeologist Cesar Astuhuaman of Piura University. Historical documents [...]
, decorated with carvings of snake heads has been found at Templo Mayor in Mexico City. He said the platform, which is still being unearthed, was gradually uncovered over the preceding months. It is covered with at least 19 serpent heads, each about a half-yard (meter) long. Barrera said accounts from the 1500s suggested the [...]
The remains of a wealthy teenage girl have been found in what is believed to be a newly discovered henge in Kent, England. The discovery of the 17-year-old’s grave — along with a unique prehistoric pot inside of a ringed ditch near two other women — strengthens the idea that important death-related rituals took place [...]
A male hunter’s coat which dates back to 300 A.D. has been found in a melting glacier in Norway. In total, seventeen textiles and garments have been received at the museum, including a leather shoe and several other pieces of clothing. However, the men’s coat is the first one that has been dated and preserved. [...]
A genetic study has revealed that domesticated donkeys first originated in Northeast Africa. The new findings suggest that two populations of wild asses in Africa were the first to be domesticated by people thousands of years ago, and these donkeys then traveled with people to other parts of the world. Albano Beja-Pereira of Université Joseph [...]