Background The West Berkeley Shellmound is located at the junction of Second Street and Hearst Avenue in Berkeley, California. The mounds original dimensions could not be accurately determined because most of it had been removed prior to excavation. It was believed to cover an elliptical area, approximately 350 x 600 feet. Even though the land in the immediate vicinity had been altered, it was still possible to identify the natural surroundings.…
Carved into the sides of cliffs in Mesa Verde National Park are what has come to be known as Cliff Dwellings. However, a more appropriate name would be cliff houses in a cliff village. The rooms range from small storage areas to entire communities of intertwined living spaces sometimes carved into the sides of cliffs. The Cliff Dwellings are believed to have been built by the Ancestral Puebloans (“Cliff Dwellings”), aka Anasazi and Pueblo Indians. This shift in the name of these people represents a changing discourse, one that used to view Native Americans as savages, but now recognizes these Native Americans as a collection of hundreds of separate communities with distinct languages and cultures.…
Why does the investigation of the cave require a multi-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary approach? Named after its discoverer, the cave complex consists of a string of chambers that are 570 meters long and a connecting gallery and three vestibules. The largest chamber is 70 meters long and 40 meters wide. The distance between the entrance and the furthest images are about 250 meters. At the northern end the cave forks into two horn-shaped branches.…
The Dome of the Rock has a substantial egg molded vault that is principally made of a gold shaded material. The building is octagonal and has exceptionally detailed outlines around the whole outside. The building appears to have an attention on symmetry and repetition. The shading plans and outlines are rehashed around the entire building. The outlines and shapes are fundamentally blue, green, and yellow.…
Jessica Martinkosky V100 Weyers Cave, VA 24486 Dear Ms. Martinkosky, I am writing to introduce you to the work of Marilyn Levine. She is a ceramics artist that specializes in making clay appear as leather. Unfortunately she is deceased however; she has dedicated her career to making hyper realistic renderings of leather objects that are entirely made from clay. Although many artists refine, vary or shift styles throughout their careers, Levine stuck to the realistic sculpture she devised 35 years ago as a graduate student at UC Berkeley. A viewer of one of her shows described her as the following "In a lesser artist, this apparent lack of development would be interpreted as a severe limitation.…
“When children ask such questions, they are trying to understand their world. They come into this world knowing and understanding very little and spend the rest of their lives trying to figure out everything (11).” This statement from How Do We Know? provides insight to the knowledge that many children and adults are grasping to understand. Children need adults to give advice and provide them the ability to grow up and be successful adults. Questions lead to answers which in return can turn into knowledge.…
Efforts to preserve rock art in neighboring Faris Cave site have shown promising results in the use of ethyl silicate and silane that may enable the lengthening of time for archaeological research, and maintain a link to the past (Grisafe 1996, 373). Next is the historical, and modern, vandalism of sites within Kansas. From the movement of “pioneers” and settlers of into the area leaving their marks on the stones, to modern inhabitants marking up, etching out, using the works as target practice, the works themselves are now harder to observe, if left at…
A few weeks after my trip to summer camp, my family took a trip to the antelope slot canyons in Page. Our tour guide, a Navaho, named Jim, gave us a great time riding on the back of a pickup truck through the desert and describing the significance of certain rock formations, but the truly magnificent part of the journey was learning little fragments of his life. Jim was born and raised on the Navajo reservation. He was eight years old when his friend discovered the slot canyons, and they played in them daily. On our trip, his melancholy expression bore a sadness for what was gone; thousands of tourists trampled the canyons daily.…
Researchers were about to remove millimeters of sediments to get geological info. Calcite growing all around the cave solidified the theory that these caves were extremely old and had laid untouched for thousands of…
Inception and the Allegory of the Cave The movie “Inception” directly reflects Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. The idea that through a dream enlightenment becomes possible which directly relates to changing a way of thinking. The hero in the movie Cobb has demons to exercise from his former way of thinking In order to achieve his goal of “reality”.…
Attending the geology camp GeoFORCE for the past four years, I have learned a quite a few things about erosion, archeology, and the affects of the erosion in the future. Erosion is a scary subject to talk about and the fact that the North Slope’s erosion is one of the fastest rates of erosion in the nation scares me to death. However, the erosion revealed some fascinating human remains. With my little knowledge of archeology and geology, the law of uniformitarianism, which means the present is the key to the past, comes to play. The remains that were found can unveil some things we did not know about the past.…
Throughout the history of activism within the LGBT+ community, there has been a common goal to promote openness and acceptance. By employing a strategy modeled after the civil rights movement, which mainly focused on assimilation into the dominant institutions as a means of acceptance, activist groups have received their fair share of criticism. In 1997, Cathy J Cohen, a Black lesbian author and social activist, published the groundbreaking article “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” a year after a controversy she introduces in the beginning of the essay. The famed Gay Men’s Health Crisis, best known for their active role in the treatment of HIV/AIDS during the AIDS crisis, came under fire after…
Socrates was one of the best philosophers that the world has ever seen. He was even put to death for some his teachings, and he accepted it. The also great Plato was one of Socrates’ students. Plato was also the author of the republic which holds his allegory of the cave philosophy. This allegory has been used in modern day, especially in movies.…
The Allegory of the Cave is a hypothesis put into perspective by Plato, regarding human awareness. In the short story a group of prisoners have been confined in a cavern ever since birth with no knowledge of the outside world. They are chained facing a wall unable to turn their heads. While a fire behind them gives off a faint light. Sometimes people pass by carrying figures of animals and other objects that cast shadows on the wall.…
Additionally, Jean Clottes, an advocate for rock art preservation asserts that “it is always advisable, whenever possible, to incorporate local populations in the management and eventual commercial exploitation of the sites and in their conservation” (Clottes, 2008:…