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 collection of wax cylindrical phonographic records from Thomas Edison’s laboratory have been restored. The cylinders, from 1889 and 1890, include the only known recording of the voice of the powerful chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Two preserve the voice of Helmuth von Moltke, a venerable German military strategist, reciting lines from Shakespeare and from Goethe’s [...]
Tutuveni, a Hopi site containing 5,000 petroglyphs, is under threat from vandalism. Now two Native American tribes are working to protect it. “They would stop at Tutuveni and camp there, and they would peck their clan symbols on those rocks to mark their participation in that pilgrimage. And they did this for four or five [...]
A kiln which was used by the Zapotec 1,300 years ago has been found in the Atzompa Archaeology Site in Oaxaca, Mexico. “Preliminarily, it was assumed that it might date from the first occupation years of the site, between 650 and 900 of the Common Era, more than 1,300 years ago, parting from associated ceramic [...]
Ancient pottery and artifacts have been uncovered on the island of Tinian which could help researchers learn how people first came to the area. As the theory goes, about 3,000 to 3,500 years ago, sea levels around Asia began to drop, Peterson said. The main road in Tumon, for example, would have been completely under [...]
Prostate cancer has been discovered in an Egyptian mummy which dates back 2,200 years. AUC professor Salima Ikram, a member of the team that studied the mummy in Portugal for two years, said Sunday the mummy was of a man who died in his forties. She said this was the second oldest known case of [...]
A collection of colour photographs taken by Adolf Hitler’s personal photogratpher have been released for the very first time. [Thx Kese!] The Mirror reports that photographer Hugo Jaeger was one of the few photographers working with color photography at the time and was granted access to Hitler’s living and study quarters, showing artwork and furnishings [...]
LiveScience has posted an interesting article about how archaeologists are using digital technologies to document excavations. In previous eras, researchers logged their data in notebooks, which were preserved along with photographs, maps and objects, in a physical archive. Rabinowitz can still access the notebooks and negatives of people who conducted research more than a hundred [...]
A 3,500-year-old clay tablet found in southern Mesopotamia contains ancient riddles written in the Akkadian language. Thanks to the diligence of some researchers, they have now been translated. Two of the riddles, now in a fragmentary state, are sexual, crude and difficult to understand. One of them, whose translation is uncertain, reads: The deflowered (girl) [...]
Archaeologists working in Sudan have found a long-lost temple which dates back to the Meroe period. The large temple compound is situated 130 km northwards of Khartoum. European travellers saw the remains of the temple in the early 19th century but then the temple disappeared in the desert, said Onderka who leads the Czech archaeology [...]
For years the hill-fort known as the Mound of Down in Ireland has been hidden because of the trees growing across its surface. Now it is being cleared of those trees to expose the fortifications. The enclosure is defined by a massive bank and ditch that encircles what was once a drumlin island in the [...]
One of the busiest slave ports in the Americas has been uncovered in Rio de Janerio after being buried for almost 200 years. Not far from here at least 500,000 Africans took their first steps into slavery in colonial Brazil, which took in far more slaves than the United States and where now half of [...]
Britain’s oldest house, found at the Star Carr Mesolithic site in North Yorkshire, is being threatened by its deteriorating surroundings. “The water table has fallen and the peat is shrinking and it is severely damaging the archaeology,” she said. “The water keeps the oxygen and bacteria out and because they are now going into these [...]
Researchers believe a mass grave found in Cambridge in 2009 contains the bodies of 54 decapitated viking mercenaries. Unlike the frenzied mob attack that took place at Oxford, all the men were murdered methodically and beheaded in an unusual fashion from the front. The Cambridge academic said she believed the skeletons belonged to a group [...]
Researchers are using underwater robots to search for Minoan shipwrecks in the Aegean sea. His four-week survey of the waters around Crete last October is part of a long-term effort to catalogue large numbers of ancient shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea. And the grand prize would be a wreck from one of the most influential [...]
A fluxgate magnetometer sounds like something that could send you back through time, but really it measures the magnetic properties of soil. This technology has been used on the Shriver Circle, an ancient earthwork in Ohio that is now invisible from ground-level. Earthworks generally are quite large, and building one involved the rearrangement of large [...]
More than 200 Jewish medieval Jewish manuscripts have been discovered along the Silk Road in Afghanistan and are up for sale. “For the first time we have concrete evidence of Jewish existence (in Afghanistan), not only in the material sense of tombstones or household artifacts, but documents that (tell us) about the spiritual world of [...]
Construction workers in Belize have uncovered Maya artifacts and human remains. “What we have here are three jars or ollas as they call them in Spanish and by the style of it, by the way they were made we know that they date to the late Pre-classic period or between 300 BC to about the [...]
A 1,600-year-old harbor town called Bathonea has been revealed after drought lowered the water level in Lake Kucukcekmece in Turkey. The find is Bathonea, a substantial harbor town dating from the second century B.C. Discovered in 2007 after a drought lowered the lake’s water table, it has been yielding a trove of relics from the [...]
The wreckage of The Royal Charlotte, a convict and trop transporter en route to India in 1825, has been found off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The Royal Charlotte, a convict and troop transporter, was en route to India with a contingent of troops when it sank in a gale on Frederick Reef in 1825. [...]
Researchers in Canada have CT-scanned two mummified ibises from Egypt. Their findings suggest that Egyptians believed animals traveled to the afterlife as well. Studies of human mummies show that ancient Egyptians often removed and embalmed the lungs and digestion organs before placing them back inside the body – perhaps so they might work in the afterlife. The [...]
A puzzling “winged” Roman structure which may have been used as a temple has been found in Norfolk, England. “Generally speaking, [during] the Roman Empire people built within a fixed repertoire of architectural forms,” said William Bowden, a professor at the University of Nottingham, who reported the find in the most recent edition of the [...]
Leonardo Da Vinci seems to be showing up in a lot of fictional mysteries, but this time it’s real: Researchers believe a Da Vinci painting may be hidden behind a mural in Florence, Italy. Their goal was to solve one of art history’s greatest mysteries – whether Vasari preserved a long-lost work of Leonardo Da [...]
An academic in Oxford has discovered 14 previously unknown letters written by the famous writer Voltaire. They include a signed acceptance from the 18th Century writer for a £200 grant from the Royal Family. The writer abandoned the French spelling of his first name, Francois, styling himself “Francis”. Professor Nicholas Cronk says Voltaire was “hugely [...]
Corncobs dating back to 4700BC have been found in northern Peru, revealing that the ancient people that lived there ate popcorn 1,000 years earlier that perviously thought. Researchers say corncobs found at an ancient site in Peru suggest that the inhabitants used them for making flour and popcorn. Scientists from Washington’s Natural History Museum say [...]
Here is an exceptionally interesting list detailing the 10 most important archaeological discoveries found in Greece last year. 1) A small 2,500-year old wooden statue in perfect conditions. The impressive find was made in the Sanctuary of Artemis in Vravrona during building works on the archaeological site’s drainage well. Other objects were found alongside the statuette, all [...]