Archaeology [Sticky] Archaeology by Prau123

Mounds in the eastern half side of America

Monks Mound in Cahokia Mound

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Hopewell Mound

Serpent Mound

Poverty Point

Cholula site in Mexico and Pueblo Indian multi-story adobe houses located in the southwest are one of the few fully enclosed large structures in the New World where visitors are allowed to enter and tour the inside of the place. 

Places such as Mesa Verde, Machu Picchu, Chaco Canyon, and plus more are considered open structures actually. 

Several Mesoamerican structures do have tunnels and rooms however visitors are not permitted to enter and tour. 

On the contrary, there are countless of fully enclosed archaeological sites in the Old World where visitors are permitted to enter and tour the inside of the structure.  

The Indus Valley - Mohenjo-daro and Harappa

The Indus Valley is considered the least known cradle of civilizations of the world which began around 3,600 B.C. or older.  This ancient civilization had the most structures ever built with around 1,600 of them that occupied 6 million inhabitants - the largest population at the time. The civilization flourished on agriculture that were fed by multiple rivers which they then traded to neighboring civilizations by sailing ships on rivers and along the sea coastline of the Indian ocean.  

Caribbean Islands was one of the last region of the Americas that was finally colonized by the indigenous people that began around 8,000 years ago. The earliest group voyaged from South America to the Caribbean on an ocean vessel that could carry an adequate number of passengers.  The canoes and sailing ships had to navigate with the prevailing trade winds and westerlies however voyaging across an open sea is often met with danger.  The passengers had to overcome an ordeal through rough waves and ocean currents along with other perils that are commonly associated with the Caribbean Sea such as rainstorms, fogs, high winds, hurricanes, barracudas, sharks and whirlpools.  The vast sea became an ocean highway for migration and trade to and away from the archipelagos. Several generations later, different indigenous groups began peopling the 7,000 plus islands arriving from South America, Florida and Central America.  Taino referred to sometimes as Arawak and the Island Caribs were the familiar groups to reside on the Caribbean Islands however it was also the Igneri, Guanahatabey, Ciguayo, Macorix and Calusa that made big waves of migrations to these tropical paradise islands.  

www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/caribbean-colonization-08506.html

An international team of researchers has sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 93 ancient Caribbean islanders and found evidence of at least three separate population dispersals into the region: two early dispersals into the Western Caribbean, one of which seems connected to earlier population dispersals in North America; and a third, more recent wave from South America.

 

The Caribbean Islands were one of the last regions in the Americas to be settled by humans.
The earliest archeological evidence suggests that the Caribbean’s first residents arrived roughly 8,000 years ago, and by 5,000 years ago, were widely dispersed.

 

Despite coexisting for centuries, the scientists found almost no evidence of admixture, raising intriguing new questions about their interactions.
“Although different groups were present in the Caribbean at the same time, we found surprisingly little evidence of admixture between them,”

 

Caribbean

Throughout history artists have painted pictures of what society appeared like before their time.   They want us to finally see a world that was only known through literature and oral tradition.  The masterpiece paintings reminds us of how much of culture and history has been forgotten.   

Italian Renaissance artist Raphael paints of what he imagines when Plato mentors Aristotle at the School of Athens. He also painted on the wall were several famous philosophers such as Socrates, Ptolemy, and others who lived in different time periods in Greek history.

The School of Athens Fresco

Aztecs created the capital of Tenochtitlan on the Texcoco lake however the city was leveled and replace with what is now Mexico City.   The painting by Diego Rivera captures the livelihood and activities of the Aztec people.

La Gran Tenochtitlan Mural