In Hawaii, I’ve been introduced to two completely new holidays: Boys’ Day and Girls’ Day, or Tango no Sekku and Hinamatsuri. Both these holidays have been imported to the islands by the large Japanese population here, and are heavily promoted by everyone from convenient stores to large Japan-based department store chains. Tango no Sekku was ...
Southwestern Indiana may be known for Amish country, The Evansville Ball Park, and local College towns, but before it was home to all of those things, it was inhabited by the Native Americans, and today you can see proof of this by traveling to Angel Mounds. Angel Mounds is an amazement to behold, a historic ...
The world today badly needs inspirational and transformational leaders, whose vision can easily be shared and imbibed by all those, whose lives they touch directly or indirectly. Essentially, it means making personal sacrifices for the common good. In recent times, I can only think of Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. They don’t seem to ...
The anthropology courses at CU deals in such helpful topics as the principles of anthropology, exploring non-western cultures like Japan, Maya and Africa, and physical anthropology. Learn all you can about the theories and reasons behind the theory of evolution, the human skeletal structure or even the behaviors of primates in the anthropology program. It’s ...
Paleolithic people of the old stone age used simple stone tools, and were the earliest people that we know of who had the ability to make tools. Stone tools came in very handy to the Paleolithic people as they learned that tools could change their physical environment. These people also developed a better understanding of ...
From what we can learn about prehistory, it seems that very primitive people at an early date gained a remarkable knowledge of astronomy, the order of the seasons, and the development of a calendar. Of course, this knowledge is not out of this world for primitive people. It is fundamental for understanding when to plant, ...
With the warm weather and beautiful beaches, its easy to find activities in Fort Walton and Destin to do when its sunny; however, many people have a hard time finding activities when its rains. Since I lived there for three years, I’ve found lots of activities to do when it rains and also to do ...
Archaeologists don’t have treasure-hunting adventures like Indiana Jones. Many don’t even dig. Instead, archaeology offers specialized career paths covering a host of interests. As the study of the past, archaeology explores almost every imaginable aspect of human experience (there are even experts on fossilised faeces). Many archaeologists do a bit of everything, and few work ...