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
A 1,700-year-old curse tablet written in ancient Greek has been translated. A fiery ancient curse inscribed on two sides of a thin lead tablet was meant to afflict, not a king or pharaoh, but a simple greengrocer selling fruits and vegetables some 1,700 years ago in the city of Antioch, researchers find. Written in Greek, [...]
Tooth analysis performed on the remains of slaves in a cemetery in Brazil have revealed that the African slaves came from a much wider geographic area than originally thought. Using strontium isotope analyses of tooth enamel – a technique that helps detect where a person was raised and has previously been used on samples from [...]
This is a super interesting find: Archaeologists working in Central America have found tombs from an unnamed civilization currently known at the “Golden Chiefs”. The team also uncovered a grisly clue as to how the apparent sacrifices might have met their fates, though forensic analysis is still underway. “A vessel full of bones of a [...]
A pillar has collapsed at the ancient House of Loreius Tiburtinus in Pompeii. The House of Loreius Tiburtinus is famous for its extensive gardens and outdoor ornamentation, in particular its Euripi, fountains that feature many frescoes and statuettes. The frescoes portray the myths of Narcissus on one side of the fountain and Pyramus and Thisbe [...]
Archaeologists working in Israel have unearthed a 1,600-year-old bathhouse. “This is a bathhouse that measures 20 by 20 meters and dates to the fourth-fifth centuries CE (A.D.),” excavation director Rina Avner said. “The remains visible in the field include the frigidarium (cold room), tepidarium (warm room) and caldarium (hot room), as well as a courtyard [...]
Four looters have been arrested in southeastern Bulgaria after being caught digging illegally at an ancient Thracian burial mound. he four men were busted while excavating illegally at the mound, which does not lie far from the Bulgarian crossing on the Turkish border of Lesovo. The four treasure hunters are aged between 37 and 73 [...]
A prehistoric settlement which dates back to the Iron Age has been found at Bare, in southern Serbia. Due to torrential waters and intensive agriculture at the location, the multilayer site Bare is now largely destroyed. “Had the site been investigated in the sixties of the last century, the archaeologist’s findings would have been far [...]
Expect the secret of the Great Pyramid’s doors to be solved next year as archaeologists gear up once more to investigate the inner workings of the 4,500-year-old pharaonic mausoleum. A robot, designed by Rob Richardson at the University of Leeds, was able to climb inside the walls of the shaft while carrying a “micro snake” [...]
The remains of Jane Austen’s Steventon home, where she wrote drafts of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, have been unearthed in Hampshire, UK. Debbie Charlton, of archaeologists Archaeo Briton, who led the dig, said: “Our main focus for the project is putting together the puzzle of what Jane’s first home was like.” Although [...]
Archaeologists working in Stockholm, Sweden, have found the remains of nine people in a tomb previously thought to have belonged to King Magnus Ladulås who lived in the 13th century A.D. The Swedish King Magnus Ladulås (1240-1290 a.d.) is buried in the Riddarholmen church (Riddarholmskyrkan) in Gamla Stan, Stockholm. This is at least what everybody [...]
Researchers have confirmed the precise origin of some of the rocks at Stoneheneg to Pembrokeshire, Wales. It has long been suspected that rhyolites from the northern Preseli Hills helped build the monument. But research by National Museum Wales and Leicester University has identified their source to within 70m (230ft) of Craig Rhos-y-felin, near Pont Saeson. [...]
Archaeologists have unearthed several graves in a cemetery in Poland which contain all sorts of treasures and weapons. Archaeologists stumbled upon the cemetery, which dates to the late 10th and early 11th centuries, after surveying a highway-construction site near the village of Bodzia, roughly 90 miles (150 kilometers) northwest of Warsaw. The find is reported [...]
The fossilized remains of a tusked, wombat-like creature found in Tasmania have been identified for the first time as a dicynodont. The dicynodont, similar to a mammal, lived about 250 million years ago, predating dinosaurs. The University of Tasmania unveiled the fossils and images yesterday for the first time, five years after bushwalkers Bob and [...]
Flooding from the Chao Phraya River has caused an old wall in the Temple of Dawn to partially cave in, threatening the temple’s main pagoda. The cave-in, about two metres in length and about half a metre wide, is no more than 10 metres from the main pagoda, assistant abbot Phra Khru Arun Thammanuwat said, [...]
New research in canine science has revealed that the transition to dogs from wolves had little to do with human interference. “Traditional anthropological definitions of domestication consider the process to be a deliberate act of selection by humans,” the published study states. “However, this view has been challenged in recent years by the hypothesis that [...]
The remains of a church which dates back to the late 17th century has been found in Florida. Now archaeologists are trying to determine if it is one of two possible churches. First, we know that in 1677, the governor of Florida ordered a stone church built in St Augustine to honor Nuestra Señora de [...]
An 1,800-year-old bronze enamelled cockerel figurine has been found in a Roman child’s grave in Gloucestershire. It is thought the bronze cockerel, which is 12.5cm high, could have been a message to the gods. Archaeologist Neil Holbrook said it was a “most spectacular” find. The elaborately-decorated cockerel is believed to be Roman, probably dating back [...]
Flood waters from Hurrican Irene have revealed an 18th century fort underneath a parking lot at the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site in New York. Experts aren’t just interpreting the stone structures, but dozens of artifacts like cuff links, musket balls, and colonial coins made into jewelry. Plus, smoking pipes and wine bottles, all of [...]
Archaeologists are using ground-penetrating radar to survey the ancient city of Isos in Turkey. A team of archeologists has begun working on examining the site of the ancient city of Isos in southern Turkey by making use of ground-based sensors to visualize the underground features of the city’s structures, the district governor has said. skender [...]
That title sounds pretty boring, but the real story is actually kind of interesting! An ancient pole has been found at the bottom of Lake Huron that may shed some like on a mysterious perhistoric period of North American history. Research divers from the University of Michigan discovered a 5 1/2-foot-long, pole-shaped piece of wood [...]
Two men in Greece have been arrested for illegally unearthing a 2,600-year-old helmet. The two Greek suspects were arrested on Thursday in the southern town of Pyrgos. Police say one of the men also had six antique silver coins in his house. Under Greek law, all antiquities found in the country are state property. That [...]
The Washington Post has posted an interesting article about Bruno Frohlich, the man responsible for CT scan all sorts of amazing things at the Smithsonian Museum. “In the old days, 20 years ago, we would do an autopsy, cut the body open,” Frohlich says of studying mummies. No need for such destructive science now. Just [...]
New research suggests that the disappearance of elephants as a food source drove human evolution in the Middle East. The elephant, a huge package of food that is easy to hunt, disappeared from the Middle East 400,000 years ago — an event that must have imposed considerable nutritional stress on Homo erectus. Working with Prof. [...]
A Neolithic “earth mother” figurine, dubbed the “Lady of Villers-Carbonnel” has been found on the banks of the River Somme in France. The 6,000-year-old statuette is 8in high, with imposing buttocks and hips but stubby arms and a cone-like head. Similar figures have been found before in Europe but rarely so far north and seldom [...]