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
16th-century glass beads and tools have been found under a former Native American village in Georgia. A continent and five centuries away, an excavation organized by Atlanta’s Fernbank Museum of Natural History found buried glass beads, iron tools, and brass and silver ornaments dating to the mid-1500s. The southern-Georgia location—where they’d been searching for a [...]
New research has revealed that as much as 40% of medieval graves in Europe have been disturbed, and not always by grave robbers. “I think the grave goods didn’t have only material value, I think they had a strong symbolic value that it was part of the identity of the people,” she said, speculating that when [...]
Heavy rain in Myanmar has damaged a number of ancient Buddhist pagodas. “We started renovation on the morning of October 21 when the rain slowed down. We will work on it as quickly as possible to restore the damage,” he said. “We were in the middle of planning a long-term project to renovate pagodas managed [...]
A Chinese coin which dates back 340 years has been found in the Yukon. The coin is etched with traditional Chinese characters indicating it was minted during the Qing Dynasty reign of Emperor Kangxi, who ruled China from 1662 to 1722. But other information stamped on the money piece – which has a large central [...]
The architects responsible for designing the ancient city of Teotihuacán in Mexico based their designs off an 83cm measure. The researcher said that by making calculations based on the measurements of the pyramids at Teotihuacán, he was able to determine “the constant presence” of the 83-centimeter unit. Sugiyama, an associate research professor at Arizona State [...]
Divers have discovered a Roman tombstone from the Drava river in Croatia. The relief shows a mythical scene, possibly Venus with two cupids, but archaeologists cannot be certain before the restoration work is completed. Both pieces are believed to date to the second or third century. Underwater archaeologist Kruno Zubcic discovered the find weighing 400 [...]
A tiny 1,400-year-old Christian relic has been unearthed in Jerusalem. The box, carved from the bone of a cow, horse or camel, decorated with a cross on the lid and measuring only 0.8 inches by 0.6 inches (2 centimeter by 1.5 centimeter), was likely carried by a Christian believer around the end of the 6th [...]
A Roman cap which was the “missing link” in the chain of Roman defenses in western Germany has been found. Occupied between 11 and 7BC and the size of seven football pitches, the military installation was probably used to control crossings points on the Lippe and act a supply depot for outlying posts. “The monument [...]
I thought this article was interesting, with Movember underway and all: A CT-scan performed on a 2,250-year-old Egyptian mummy has revealed that the deceased suffered from prostate cancer. Now an international research team has diagnosed what ailed M1: the oldest known case of prostate cancer in ancient Egypt and the second oldest case in the [...]
The bodies of 21 German soldiers who fought in World War I have been found in a bombed-out tunnel in France. The tunnel, six meters underground and 1.80 meters high, was built with German thoroughness, equipped with heating, telephone connections, electricity, beds and a pipe to pump out water. It had 16 exits and was [...]
Two large Buddhist statues have been unearthed in Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple complex. Ly Vanna, an artifacts expert for the government’s Apsara Authority that oversees the site, said Thursday the two stone statues found at Ta Prohm temple were headless but the larger one if complete would stand about 10 feet (3 meters) tall. He [...]
Archaeologists working at Cave Hill in Ireland have discovered what they believe to be a prehistoric ceremonial site. Dr Welsh also drew attention to a piece of sandstone which was uncovered at the site and has been inscribed with a unique design. “We have a piece of sandstone and someone has gone to the trouble [...]
The ancient city of Pompeii has been in the news as of late due to poor preservation practices which have caused structures to collapse. Now the European Union has sent $145 million to aid in conservation efforts. The European Commission will keep constant control over the (Italian) plan (to protect) Pompeii,’ Hahn said, adding that [...]
One of the first Viking settlements in Ireland has been found just south of Dundalk. Folklore said it was there, but all traces of it had disappeared, until a group of archaeologists and local historians set out to prove its existence. Extensive field research and test digs have now done that. What they found was [...]
Some idiots camping in Nine Mile Canyon decided to deface the priceless rock art there. Now a reward of up to $2,500 is being offered to capture and convict the yobs. Nine Mile Canyon is world-renowned for its high concentration of rock art sites and is often called the world’s longest art gallery. “Although the [...]
A study of Neanderthal leg length has revealed that their short legs would have allowed them to move more efficiently over the mountainous terrain where they lived. “Studies looking at limb length have always concluded that a shorter limb, including in Neandertals, leads to less efficiency of movement, because they had to take more steps [...]
Chemical analysis carried out on 6,000-year-old cooking pots found in northern Europe shows that freshwater fish was used to supplement the communities fledgling agricultural economy. Around one-fifth of coastal pots contained other biochemical traces of aquatic organisms, including fats and oils absent in terrestrial animals and plants. At inland sites, 28 percent of pots contained [...]
Two fisherman have caught a 1,000-year-old human skull on the banks of Lake Georgetown in Texas. Black said further down from Lake Georgetown, near the San Gabriel River, researchers discovered a cemetery dating back between 1,000 and 1,500 years old. He said the skull might have come from a similar site. “When you only have [...]
An ancient Sican tomb belonging to an elite figure has been found in northern Peru. “We have been digging since last February and in the zone we called the Palace, a chamber had been detected and that led to the discovery of the tomb of someone very important of the Lambayeque elite, approximately from the [...]
A Mongolian shipwreck which dates back to the 13th century has been found off the coast of Japan. Okinawa Prefecture’s University of the Ryukyus has announced that large parts of a Mongolian ship presumed to have been part of a 13th century Yuan Dynasty-era invasion fleet has been discovered on the seafloor near Nagasaki. The [...]
The 1,500-year-old remains of a couple found holding hands has been unearthed in Modena, Italy. Italian archaeologists say the man and woman were buried at the same time between the 5th and 6th century A.D. in central-northern Italy. Wearing a bronze ring, the woman is positioned so she appears to be gazing at her male [...]
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 [...]