PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY

HISTORY OF ADO-ODO AND LIST OF THEIR OBAS  The ancient Awori Kingdoms' traditional seat is Ado-Odo. Ado is known as an ancient fortress of age-old traditional Ifa – the Yoruba deity of wisdom – and Oduduwa (OOdua) Temple activities. Oodua is revered by the Yorubas as the mother of all deities in the world. All of these factors combined to make Ado stand out as an unconquered refuge of the Western Yoruba area during Yoruba land's fratricidal battles, particularly in the nineteenth century until the arrival of Europeans. Aworis and Yewas of Ishaga, Imasayi, Ibooro, Ketu, Eguns (Ogu), Oyos, Ijebus, Egbas, and non-Yoruba elements such as Hausa, Igbo, Ijaw, and others live in Ado Kingdom as it is now. Nobody knows for sure when the kingdom was established. Ado is thought to have arisen from events that occurred during the eleventh century, when the need for survival, prestige, and adventure drove people out of Ile-Ife, the Yorubas' cradle, and into all directions in quest of new...

Homo Erectus vs. Saber Tooth: A Eurasia Archaeology Site Reveals What Early Humans Faced Orozmani, a significant new archaeological site in the Caucasus near Dmanisi, depicts the dispersal of Homo erectus out of Africa and the people it encountered along the way.  In the summer of 2021, development on a new "early human" site continued apace in a lush river valley in the Caucasus. The findings from Orozmani, Georgia, first discovered two years ago, confirm the theory that Homo erectus was the first hominin to reach Eurasia — and that it was not the only hominin in town. The early Pleistocene site of Orozmani, located on the banks of a tributary of the Mashavera River, is 120 kilometers from Tbilisi, Georgia's capital, and 20 kilometers from Dmanisi, home of the earliest known hominins from Africa, Homo erectus, who arrived there around 1.8 million years ago. The saga of Orozmani began in 2019 when the first survey test pit yielded early Pleistocene saber tooth tiger Homot...

  The museum pays homage to the forefather of Indian history Robert Bruce Foote, a pioneer of both south Indian geology and Indian prehistory, has a new museum in Ballari, Karnataka, dedicated to his legacy. Robert Bruce Foote unearthed the first Palaeolithic stone tool—a hand axe—in Pallavaram, near Chennai, in 1863, marking a watershed moment in Indian archaeology. Notwithstanding, in 1884, the geologist discovered the Belum caves in Andhra Pradesh, the Indian subcontinent's second largest cave system. Foote amassed a large collection of relics during his tenure, based on his 40 years of geological and archaeological excavations in western and southern India. And now, in Ballari, Karnataka, a museum devoted to his many findings has opened. The Robert Bruce Foote Sanganakallu Archaeological Museum is not only a monument to the geologist's many accomplishments, but it also examines the historical significance of Ballari. For example, in the 1970s, the faculty of Karnatak Univer...

  INTRODUCTION Because sociologists are interested in the impact of society on human behavior, it's crucial to understand how they see individual-society ties. This kind of anxiety is similar to what happens when a young person commits suicide and some individuals infer that "society is to blame." In other words, society had an impact on this individual's actions. But, exactly, what is society? Furthermore, the concept of culture together with that of society, is one of the most widely used notions in sociology. When we use the term culture in ordinary daily conversation, we often think of culture as equivalent to the 'higher things of the mind' -art, literature, music and painting. As sociologists use it, the concept includes such activities, but also far more. Culture has been seen as the ways of life of the members of a society, or of groups within a society. It concludes how t...

 In an ancient Roman villa, archaeologists discovered unusual evidence of migrant constructions. Archaeologists excavating a Roman villa complex have unearthed indications of dwellings built by migrant settlers after the Roman empire fell apart. The Institute of Archaeology at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyski University in Warsaw and the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb excavated the site. The researchers were investigating a rural villa complex on the Croatian island of Rab that dates from the first to third centuries AD when they discovered indications of structures built by migratory settlers from the old Roman province of Dalmatia. The island was a prominent harbor during the Roman era, located on a key trading route for items like as exquisite glassware, high-quality terra sigillata vessels, wine, olive oil, and fish. “It came out that the region of the settlement we researched was also occupied later after the fall of the Western Roman Empire,” stated Prof. Fabian Welc of Cardinal ...

The Mongolian Empire's Capital Was An 'Implanted' City, According to Archaeological Mapping A team of international archaeologists has completed a detailed map of Karakorum, the 13th-century capital of the Mongolian Empire. Their findings, which were published on Thursday in the journal Antiquity, indicated that the settlement was far larger than previously thought and was "implanted" on the Mongolian steppe. The team used a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (or SQUID) to survey over 1,140 acres using advanced geophysics. The SQUID measures topographical features on the surface as well as magnetic fields below ground. Data, field surveys, aerial pictures, and historical records were all used to create the map. The findings are a "deep re-evaluation of this ancient metropolis, which underlines its remarkable place in Mongolian and Eurasian history," according to Jan Bemmann, the study's lead author. Mongolian Empire's From 1220 to 1267 C...

Will the newly named Homo bodoensis assist in resolving the "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution? If you're familiar with human evolution, you've probably come across something called the "muddle in the middle" by paleoanthropologists. If you're not familiar with the muddle, it refers to an era in the Middle Pleistocene when man's evolution was poorly known. Between 774,000 and 129,000 years ago, the Middle Pleistocene/Chibanian saw the rise of our own species (Homo sapiens) in Africa and our closest cousins, the Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) in Europe. The researchers Mirjana Roksandic, Predrag Radovi, and their team from the University of Winnipeg decided to take matters into their own hands and create a new taxon dubbed Homo bodoensis in the hopes of addressing the current foggy state of Chibanian hominin taxonomy. Our taxonomy has a flaw Homo heidelbergensis and Homo rhodesiensis are the two most common human species found in Africa a...

  At a Pompeii home, a slave room was uncovered. Slave rooms have been discovered by archaeologists excavating at Pompeii's Civita Giuliana. Pompeii was a Roman city in the Campania region of Italy, located in the present municipality of Pompeii near Naples. During the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, Pompeii, Herculaneum, and numerous villas in the surrounding area were buried by 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 feet) of volcanic ash and pumice. Previous digs revealed many apartments, a servant's quarters, and a ceremonial carriage and stable with harnessed horses at Civita Giuliana's villa, which has been investigated since 2017. Archaeologists discovered a room near where the chariot was discovered, believed to be the humble lodgings of the slaves who carried out the everyday work in the Roman villa, including maintenance and preparation of the chariot, during the most recent series of excavations by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, in collaboration with the Public Prosecu...

Philosophical Anthropology: Basic Concepts and Issues Introduction This is aim for teaching students the broad concept of anthropology, its historical context, how it has evolved into what is currently known as philosophical anthropology, and the differences between the two. We're also interested in highlighting the limitations of anthropology, which make philosophy of the human person the best course of study. To add to this conversation, we'd like to look into how the person is viewed in three different civilizations: African, Eastern, and Western. Definition of Anthropology Anthropology is the study of man in its broadest sense. This definition is made up of two Greek terms that have been merged to form the notion. The Greek terms anthropos and logos are used interchangeably. As a result, it appears that anthropology has been entrusted with the responsibility of answering the question, "What is man?" Answer to this question is to figure out exactly who that individ...

  Archaeologists are excavating the relics of the ancient and long-forgotten kingdoms of Dadan and Lihyan in the parched desert and mountains of AlUla in northwest Saudi Arabia. The spectacular tombs of Madain Saleh, a 2,000-year-old city carved into rocks by the Nabateans, the pre-Islamic Arab people who also constructed Petra in neighboring Jordan, have made AlUla a major tourist attraction since it opened in 2019. Five nearby sites associated to the Dadanite and Lihyanite civilisations, key regional powers that flourished 2,000 years ago, are currently being excavated by a team of French and Saudi archaeologists. Abdulrahman al-Sohaibani, who is co-directing the Dadan archaeological mission, said, "It's a project that genuinely aims to unveil the mysteries of (these) civilisations." According to the Royal Commission for the project, Dadan is referenced in the Old Testament, and the Lihyanite kingdom was one of the greatest of its time, ranging from Medina in the sout...

  Introduction You'll understand why the world today is characterized by high levels of fear, stress, and anxiety about the future, despite the fact that the future contains many promises. In actuality, tensions, societal divisions, daily confrontations, international terrorism, assassinations, and the destructive actions of modern technology on the existing natural environment characterize the world today. Despite these issues, people still have the certainty and possibilities of directing their destiny and ensuring that their lives are shaped for the better, something that previous generations may not have been able to achieve. Why is there such a clear distinction? What will the future bring in terms of change? Sociology is concerned with these and other issues. It is in Sociology best interests to guarantee that it continues to play an important role in modern times [i.e. understanding why people change from a particular way to another]. This is what causes the field of sociolo...