Mungo Man and Mungo Lady – TEEL Paragraph: How has evidence provided modern day historians with evidence that Indigenous Australians have lived in Australia for tens of thousands of years? Disinterred from the Lake Mungo Landscape, approximately 760 kilometres west of New South Wales, were the very skeletal remains helping to indicate the fact that the Indigenous peoples of Australia were indeed around tens of thousands of years ago. There were two corpses: one a man, and the other, a young woman. They were nicknamed ‘Mungo Man’ and ‘Mungo Lady’. This astounding discovery was made by geologist Jim Bowler and two archaeologists John Mulvaney and Rhys Jones. The process of Radiocarbon Dating (allowing them to pinpoint just about how many years …show more content…
The traditional owners of the Willandra Lakes Regions are known to be the Barkandji/Paakantyi, Mutthi and Ngiyampaa people. They have been thought to have inhabited this very area of land for at least 50,000 years. Leading a more traditional way of life, the First Nations people gathered freshwater mussels, marsupials and mammals, yabbies and bush tucker for food. Sharing a close connection to the land, Lake Mungo is a very sacred site to the Aboriginal people. In death, the manner in which Mungo Man and Mungo Lady were buried is very significant. Mungo Lady was the very first evidence of cremation and ritual/ceremonial burial. A hefty process was undertaken, as she was cremated, her bones were crushed, her body was burnt, and only then, was she finally buried. When Mungo Man’s body was unearthed, a striking observation was made. There was red ochre sprinkled onto Mungo Man’s body. This insinuates that he was a very important and well-respected man, held in high regard – possibly an elder. As of now, Lake Mungo is considered to be a vast, dry lakebed. This certainly was not the case a mere 50,000 years ago, when the lake used to be full of
There are numerous unanswered questions surrounding the Northern European Bog Bodies phenomenon including "How, or why, or even when, the bodies became immersed in quagmires." (Turner, R.C, Scaife, R.G (ed.),1995,p.169). Despite vast amounts of evidence there are still no easy answers that account for the Iron age bodies. However there are four main competing theories providing possible causes including: the Sacrifice theory, Punishment theory, Boundary theory and the Accidental death theory. All these competing theories will be further examined and critically analysed throughout this text allowing us to depict the most convincing and plausible solution for the mystery of the Iron Age Bog Bodies.
The Australian Aborigines society is relatively well known in Western society. They have been portrayed accurately and inaccurately in media and film. Dr. Langton has attempted to disprove common myths about the infamous Australian society, as has her predecessors, the Berndt’s, and National Geographic author, Michael Finkel; I will attempt to do the same.
Ronald, M, Catherine, H, 1988, The World of the First Australians Aboriginal Traditional Life: Past and Present, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra
Throughout Karintha, Toomer fragments time to convey Karintha’s fast maturation. Toomer abruptly moves from one time period to another, listing only Karintha’s age for reference. He starts with Karintha as a child. He writes that men wished to “ripen a growing thing too soon”, or they wanted her to grow up fast so they could sleep with her. Instantly, Toomer cuts to “Karintha at twelve”. This seems too fast, perhaps reminiscent of Karintha’s childhood. In this section, we see how Karintha has matured. We see that like a fruit that ripened too soon, she is rotten. She beats animals and fights with other children, but she is beautiful, so nobody minds. She has also lost much of her innocence as it is implied that she is having sex. At the same time, she has almost reached the age where it becomes acceptable for men to pursue her, and men are counting down the years until it is acceptable to do so. Again, Toomer cuts off here, and we jump
Thomas, David Hurst. "American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA thomasd@ amnh. Org For the past eight years, the phrase ‘Kennewick Man’has been close to the lips of most American archaeologists and." (2004). Web. http://www4.waspress.co.uk/journals/beforefarming/journal_20042/news/20042_08.pdf
In 1958, their population was approximately 40,000. The pursuant gatherers of Mbuti people are separated into several subgroups. They lived within their individual region, where they have their own languages and engage in their hunting practices. Each Mbuti subgroup uses a language of a nearest person and they do not have a text method. Their sizes are usually small and average; they also have naturally brown skin and churlish hairs. Mbuti persons exist in bands of 15 to 60. They live in hot, sticky and plentiful precipitation forest which is sprinkled with lakes and rivers. It also has a wealthy variety of flowers and animals. The Mbuti have exte...
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act established Indian nations as the owners of Native American cultural objects, including human remains, which were found on Federal land. It requires that the American Indians provide substantial amounts of information to validate their claims. However, only federally recognized tribes are recognized under this act, so if you are an unrecognized tribe good luck claiming anything that belongs to you. After this, the existing anthropological literature will be consulted. In some instances, Indians will disagree with the literature and take steps to correct it. Indians are also likely to provide additional information that had not yet been documented. The interpretations will be written from the perspective of the claiming tribe, how they view the world, and their perception of significance of objects in religious ceremonial rites. While some might raise the question of scientific objectivity, no one will deny that this perspective had often been lacking in the literature. These interpretations are bound to bring about new insights which will challenge earlier assumptions (5).
Where is a woman’s place in society? The novel Jane Eyr, by Charlotte Brontë is a phenomenal coming-of-age, romance novel that can relate to women across time. With the attempt to answer this question of a woman’s place, the meets the definition of a classic. Italo Calvino describes classics as books that “exert a peculiar influence … when they refuse to be eradicated from the mind and … [camouflage] themselves as the collective or individual unconscious.” Jane Eyre is unforgettable and applicable to modern society with its ideas of gender that transcend time.
Jane Eyre’s journey through life is very similar to that of a train ride. She gets off to experience the world around her, for the good and the bad, but will learn from every stop. In the novel, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë, Jane will go on a journey she will never forget. All of the people that cycle in and out of Jane’s life contribute to forming her complex personality over the course of the novel.
The Victorian Era is characterized as a period of prosperity and increased morality. People began to develop very refined behavior and nationalistic spirits towards Britain. In the autobiography Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, Jane describes her life during this time period starting from a young age as an orphan being raised by her aunt to living out her life married to the wealthy Mr. Rochester. Jane is a unique woman because while she does develop the common morality and sensibilities of the Victorian time, she does not follow all of the norms associated with women. Most women in her position would be quiet, polite, and skilled in artistic mediums and intellectual matters, yet Jane typically pushes against these standards.
Jane Eyre is a novel written by Charlotte Brontë. At this point in the story Jane (the protagonist) has been through some stuff. She started out as an orphan being looked after cruelly by Mrs. Reed. Then she was sent to Lowood School in which she was treated better by the students and teacher but was treated crummy by Mr. Brocklehurst, who was the supervisor at the school. After spending eight years (six as a student, two as a teacher)
The Recurrence of Traditional Tales; Links to Fairy Tale Elements in Jane Eyre The early 1800’s shows the marking of what can still be seen in continual use today, fairy tales. Dating back to 1812, we find the first publication of the famous collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers and whether we realise it or not, these fairy stories are still in use today (Grimm, Grimm and Tatar, 2004).With the previous 10/15 years of new films utilising both old and new fairy tale themes we are able to indulge children into a dimension most adults will have earlier experienced themselves. In conjunction to this Charlotte Bronte’s, Jane Eyre can be viewed as a prime example. Published in 1847 Jane Eyre is described to be one of the most widely read
Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre is a Gothic psychological romance set in the early 1800s in England. This coming of age story pictures Jane, a young girl who lives with her cousins of whom she believes to be her only family. She is abused by them—the son, John Reed in particular—and never shown any form of love while in their household. Not until she moves away, obtains an education, and later meets her employer Edward Rochester, does she obtain any understanding of love, outside of the platonic kind shown by friends such as Helen Burns, and the simplistic comprehension of romance that reading provides. However, the love she discovers is unraveled when a secret is told that compromises the safety, trust, and legality of the relationship.
‘Presentiments are strange things! And so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key. ’(p254) Although largely perceived as a realist novel, much of ‘Jane Eyre’’s foundations are built upon fantasy.
Majority of all romance novels follow a guideline of some sort that classify them as falling under the romance genre. These guidelines include a developing romantic relationship between two individuals, a problem that creates conflict and tension between them and a resolution in which the problem is solved ending with the couple being reunited. Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre features many of these characteristics. The romance though wouldn't have been the same if the main character Jane wasn’t who she was. From certain characters to plot moments, Jane wouldn’t have been the person she was at the end of the story, a woman in love with a man.