1. Watch the 2 videos below about the discovery of King Tut’s tomb and of a lesser known King Narmer through artifacts left behind from the ancient world. Identify and describe the different reasons why each king was was considered important and what they accomplished during their rule. Please comment on why you think King Narmer was lesser known and what made King Tut the most famous of all the Egyptian pharaohs.
2. Read from attached pictures ( I have numbered them in the top left cornere)read about the people of the Paleolithic Period and why the invention of pottery is normally associated with Neolithic Cultures. Then watch the video below “Aspects of Archaeology Pottery” and discuss the different things that can be learned from studying these ancient relics of past civilizations.
Please list what you feel is the most important thing that can be learned from studying ancient pottery and what you feel it reveals about it’s creators. When responding to others be sure to comment on any similarities you might share in your opinions or differences between them.
The different things that can be learned from studying the ancient relics of past civilizations are the kind of life that people in the past and how they looked like. It also expands the knowledge about their religious beliefs and their agricultural practices. One also gets to learn that pottery has always been associated with Neolithic cultures because it shows the transition of how people in the past evolved from being hunters and gatherers to become agriculturalists. Studying ancient pottery reveals that the creators had an artistic thinking due to how they decorated their pots and stoneware using different designs, color and decorated with geometric shapes, glaze, paint, and engravings. A major similarity about the pottery in Paleolithic and Neolithic culture is that the pots were used for storage and the main media was stoneware, earthenware or porcelain (Archaeosoup Productions, 201).
