Cactus Hill

Archaeological Anthropology Question 1: First Appearances of Religion When we think of religion, we often are reminded or churches or temples, morality, and an all-powerful, all-knowing, and benevolent being often referred to as a God, Goddess, or in some forms of recent religions, multitudes of the formers. As cited by the Oxford Dictionary there is one common definition of religion which is the “The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.” Subsequently, this is the most prominent idea when we think about religion. On the contrary, there is a definition which explains religion as “ A pursuit or interest followed with great devotion.” which may refer to an older and less thought of form of religion. From an archaeological standpoint, we have an old but well-known form of religion referred to as Hinduism. Although, this religion does still exist in today’s modern society, it should be known that the religion goes as far back as 5500 BCE. Moreover, it has accumulated, a significant amount of history as well as archeological artifacts. As explained by the Ancient History Encyclopedia, one of the earliest evidence of Hinduism is found within the ancient Indus Valley civilization. This civilization shows signs of goddess worship in the form of old texts, Pashupati sketches, and a Mother Goddess figurine which clearly shows signs of some form of organized religion amongst the people of that time. Although there is quite a…

Saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) is one of the local columnar cactus of the very few that is found in Tucson, Arizona. These giant cactus can grow between 14 m to over 20 m while weighing over 3200 lbs. These cactus are heavy because of a desert adaptation which allows them to retain water by expanding its core. This allows the species to survive the extreme hot and dry summer conditions of the Sonoran Desert. However, this cactus doesn’t have high fitness in the cold conditions, so the…

1. My past camping experiences have been quite minor, but I used to live out in the desert with lots of wilderness around 2. The area I’m in is a more desert biome, outside or by a school with a large patch of desert. The typical temperature is Hot and I would expect minor precipitation to fall there in the month of my visit. The soil type is dry dirt and is very dusty, as well as the area around me is very barren. I chose a site on a slope without a water drainage feature. 3. I expected to…

Attack of the killer cacti Once there was this cactus right, and he was like mean and he wanted REVENGE!!!*coughing* he wanted to take REVENGE on me for kicking it. So it crept up on me and tried to poke me and I turned and kicked it. That’s why it wants REVENGE!! So whatever but let’s advance in the story; so George Washington playing the techno drums, WHAT oops, went back wrong way lets go forward. Ok so I went to school during fourth period as were leaving. This weird looking really…

create a town belt, which had a positive effect on sustaining the green space around the city. The Settlers also took advantage of the hills beside the wetlands and reclaimed a lot of area in order to develop more flat land for the city. This had a negative impact on the environment because the landscape was dramatically…

you ready”? I respond with “Of course” We hop in the now warm car and begin our drive into the hills. We get to our destination and slowly hop out of the car trying not to make a sound, grab our rifles and begin to walk. Walking…

have it in a random, isolated location in the woods that are across the lake from my cabin which is an isolated area to begin with. I chose this location for more a joke factor in a sense because people would not expect this at all and a random person that stumbles upon it would be in awe with what they have just “found”. People may think that it is something signifcant from the past and/or holds great value to the past as well. They would potentially think that it is historic. It will be on a…

I rode the dirt bike safely and at a normal speed for five minutes and then me, my dad and my brother finally ended the trail. We were on the open area and just like the sign at the beginning said there were a lot of dirt hills everywhere. We figured out that we had about ten minutes left until we needed to start driving back to the car and then go home. So we decided to hang out around the hills and ride around on the hills. We did a few jumps and we were about to leave when I went way to…

Everytime someone mentions mountains, I cannot help but to think about the trek up my first mountain. The first mountain I climbed, was Mount Fuji in Japan. Also known as Fujisan, this mountain stands at just over twelve-thousand feet. As the morning of the climb approached, my family and I got up early to go to the bus station. The bus ride was an hour long, past lush green farms,terraced rice paddies, down back country roads, before we arrived at the SUicide Forest. The Suicide Forest is…

In the vast plains of Montana, full of grass as green and bright as an emerald with a few drops of dew after a rainy day, with rolling hills that go on farther than the eye can see and an infinite clear baby blue sky above it all, there was a little red barn. It was old and rustic, completely different from the other cheery and bright cottages in the tiny town of Wicksdale. It’s paint peeled off the walls a little bit more every day. It creaked and groaned with the gusting winds that accompanied…