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 ceremonial pot and stones have been unearthed at Machu Picchu in Peru. The pieces, which were discovered by experts of Cusco’s Regional Directorate of Culture, were found 70 centimeters underground. According to archeologist Carlos Werner Delgado, the artifacts were left as an offering to the gods of Machu Picchu and Salkantay snowcapped mountain due [...]
DNA found in the teeth of the first known New Zealanders has been examined to shed some light on how Polynesia was settled. The researchers ground the teeth to a fine powder and dissolved the powder to release mitochondrial DNA. After being purified, the DNA was sequenced using a new technology that can produce tens [...]
An ancient village, which dates back more than 1,300 years, has been found along the banks of the Babine River in British Columbia. In addition to the house remains, which we excavated this year, there were also about 1,000 cultural depressions which are used for caching food and other materials.” In fact, Rahemtulla says there [...]
A 2,000-year-old bison kill site in Montana has been damaged during a coal mine expansion project. “All of these remains are highly butchered bison remains that are beautifully preserved and extremely rare,” said Finley, who will be among the team headed to the site today to examine the extent of damage. “This site was full [...]
With Hurricane Sandy bearing down on the East Coast of North America and cities preparing for the inevitable damage, the National Weather Service has published a list of the worst tropical storms in US history. This technical memorandum lists the deadliest tropical cyclones in the United States during 1851- 2010 and the costliest tropical cyclones [...]
An ancient city, complete with mosaics and villas, has been unearthed in Izmir, Turkey. The newly-unearthed city is believed to date back to around the late Roman or Byzantium period, Süslü said. It was home to a 550-square-meter villa complex with 105-centimeter-thick walls, water channels and 11 rooms. Precious mosaics were found in six of [...]
The world’s oldest undecipherable writing may be decoded soon thanks to a recent breakthrough made by academics at Oxford University. This device, part sci-fi, part-DIY, is providing the most detailed and high quality images ever taken of these elusive symbols cut into clay tablets. This is Indiana Jones with software. This way of capturing images, [...]
Armed Islamists in Mali have bulldozed the tombs of three Sufi saints near Timbuktu. “They arrived aboard six or seven vehicles, heavily armed,” said Garba Maiga, a resident of Timbuktu, listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site for its ancient shrines. “They flattened everything with a bulldozer and pulled up the skeletal remains.” Residents [...]
A runaway cat in Rome lead to the discovery of a 2,000-year-old tomb piled with human remains. Curti and a friend were following the cat at 10pm on Tuesday when it scampered towards a low tufa rock cliff close to his home near Via di Pietralata in a residential area of the city. “The cat [...]
The remains of what could be a Bronze Age bath or sauna has been found in the north west Highlands of Scotland. Gordon Sleight, projects leader for Historic Assynt, said: “Under a strange layer of clay, we came down to a 1.5 metre square, one metre deep pit dug into the ground with a channel [...]
A new study suggests that the ancient city of Alexandria was aligned so that on Alexander the Great’s birthday the sun would shine down the main road. Ancient Alexandria was planned around a main east-west thoroughfare called Canopic Road, said Giulio Magli, an archaeoastronomer at the Politecnico of Milan. A study of the ancient route [...]
A group of English school children came across prehistoric human remains buried in the sand dunes at Crimdon. Rachel Grahame of Tees Archaeology, said: “The crouched position of the body and the lack of grave goods strongly suggest that this is a prehistoric burial. “The location of the burial in the cliff, covered by many [...]
The grave of a child has been found during construction work in Austria. Archeologists say that the tiny grave surrounded by heavy stones had been undisturbed until it was found by the road workers, and that it dated back to the first century after Christ. They said the grave still had pottery and glass items [...]
Researchers using Google Earth have identified a series of lines that might be a transportation network into the Cambodian city of Angkor that might have carried the sandstone blocks used to build the famous temple of Angkor Wat. Field surveys revealed that the lines are a series of canals, connected by short stretches of road [...]
Archaeologists are planning a new excavation at the ancient city of Troy. “Our goal is to add a new layer of information to what we already know about Troy,” said William Aylward, a classics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who will lead the expedition. “The archaeological record is rich. If we take a closer [...]
Slash marks found on the fossilized bones of ancient pandas reveal that prehistoric man once hunted and ate the now endangered species. Wei, head of the Institute of Three Gorges Paleoanthropology at a Chongqing museum, says many excavated panda fossils “showed that pandas were once slashed to death by man.” The Chongqing Morning Post quoted [...]
Border patrol agents in Patagonia have stumbled across two pieces of ancient pottery which date back 1,000 years. The agents found one intact ancient pot and a piece of another pot while patrolling in the rugged Patagonia Mountains last week, according to a news release form Customs and Border Protection. Agents notified U.S. Forest Service [...]
Archaeologists believe they have pinpointed the spot where Julius Caesar died. Caesar, the head of the Roman Republic, was stabbed to death by a group of rival Roman senators on March 15, 44 B.C, the Ides of March. The assassination is well-covered in classical texts, but until now, researchers had no archaeological evidence of the [...]
An analysis of the remains of the 9,500-year-old Kennewick Man has revealed that he was not from the Columbia Valley, as previously thought. While Owsley has said in the past that Kennewick Man is not of Native-American descent, he said here for the first time that he believed the man was not even from this [...]
A possible Viking outpost may have been found on Canada’s Baffin Island. While digging in the ruins of a centuries-old building on Baffin Island, far above the Arctic Circle, a team led by Sutherland, adjunct professor of archaeology at Memorial University in Newfoundland and a research fellow at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, found [...]
A 1,300-year-old tomb belonging to a governor has been unearthed at Bocana del Rio Copalita in Oaxaca, Mexico. INAH’s archaeologist elaborated about the offerings found which were accompanying the skeleton, among which a severed femur believed to have been used as a baton. “This finding –he emphasized– will help understand the funerary practices of the [...]
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