Why We Study Human Origins by Randall Susman Calliope: Exploring World History Article
This very interesting article tells us about the early humans and the studies made on them. By reading this article I learned that by studying fossils we can know that our earliest ancestors looked like,behaved, lived and adapted to their surroundings. But we can also learn more by comparing behavior of living animals. I also learned that before archeologists discovered the first skeletons, people relied upon religious teachings and myths to explain the beginning of humanity 
 
In the 1800s Charles Darwin  developed Theory of Evolution ( The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed (online dictionary) )by observing plants and animals.Another scientist, Thomas Henry Huxley proposed that apes and humans anatomically more similar than apes and monkeys

From all of this, many historians came up with theories about our ancestors, they "were tree-dwelling apes, or four-legged knuckle walkers, or even bipeds that lived in water." This shows that finally humans aren't so different from animals, in fact they are parallel to them.



 Susman, Randall. "Why We Study Human Origins." Calliope: Exploring World History Sept. 1999: 4-5. Print.

THE MYSTERY OF STONEHENGE

They have been many theories about who, how and why Stonehenge has been built, but because of our incredible new technology they are also some accurate facts, for example we know that it has been built in Britain in the neolithic, that the blue stones now in the midle were before around it, we also know the incredibly heavy weight of those stones and that they are some squelettin of neolithic people burried under Stonehenge. But the most incredible thing is that it forms a perfect circle and that on the winter solstice and on the summer solstice, the light go right through Stonehenge, cutting it in two!!! But the questions that make scientists go crazy are; How did they carry does rocks 20 feet tall and 25-40 tones ? How did they make it go in a nearly perfect circle without even having sketches? How did they calculate that the 2 solstices would go right through it? And why did they built it? As I said they are many theories including extraterrestrial's help and I will explain some of them.
Because they are so many questions to be answered, I will only share my research about the reason of Stonehenge. The first theory is that  Stonehenge has been built as a place for the dead, also for the ones alive to meet their ancestors but they also think it might have been a place to stop the illness. Some people also think that it might have been an observatory or even a place for UFO's to land on!!!
All of those theories are based on sources but are they true? Are we ever going to solve the mystery of Stonehenge?  Or is it going to stay a Mystery for ever?

Here Is an other discovery!

You wont believe me.... I have another discovery to share!!!!! Some archeologist found 2 new fossils of early humans in Africa. A 3 000 000 years old female adult and and a 3 000 000 years old male child. Those fossils made us discover new things about  Australopithecus Sediba ( what they were) : They have long thumbs, they had a brain that looked very much like ours but one quarter smaller, we also discovered that they were able to climb trees and walk on 2 foot, finally they say that their is a possibility that they were already making and using tools!!! One of the most incredible things about this discovery is that they found a sample of fossilized skin, this sample is now in laboratory to be checked. But all of those new ideas and discoveries make people disagree and argue!!! Like Harvard, George Washington University and many others. What do YOU think?

Huge Gladiator school found Buried in Austria

Archeologists just discovered a Huge gladiator school buried in Austria that was probably created in 150 A.D. It is the size of 2 Wall marts ( or two shopping malls) !!!! You might ask the question "How did they find the totality of the school?". And to answer the question I would say that they used tractor-mounted radar equipment that penetrates the earth to produce three-dimensional images of buried objects. Those machines made archeologists discover the school's many rooms, an amphitheater, a courtyard. a campus for animals. But what will probably make them discover the most is the cemetery..... What are we going to discover!?

How historians learn about the past

Today's question is.... How do historians learn about the past? Historians learn about the past by using sources, sources are divided into two groups: written and non written. Written sources are anything like books, letters, songs, poems, speeches, business/ government paper, posters, magazines, newspapers, blogs, maps, adds... Non written sources are : fossils, artifacts, tombs, cities and oral tradition.
But those are only the main two groups, after that historians will separate them again into two different groups: primary sources and secondary sources. Primary sources are the sources produced at the same time than the event, they are the most valuable and important. Secondary sources are the sources that were created by people that studied the primary sources.
There are three questions that a historian will first ask when he finds a source those questions are : Is it accurate? Is it valid? Is it reliable?
After that they will ask : What kind of source is it? When was the source produced? Where was the source produced? Why was the source produced? Who produced the source ?
If they are able to answer all of those question, a historian can say that he discovered a new part of history!

why did people settled in some specific places?

Hello, today I'm going to try to answer the question "Why did people settled in some specific places?". The first thing that I would say to answer this question would be that at th time they mostly lived with farming, they used it to feed their families and/or to sell it in markets so they needed a good and fertile land with a water source not to far away and also more importantly a good climate. But even people that didn't farm used natural resources to; build cities and houses, make weapons. One of the most important thing was for the city to be protected from enemies by being on a mountain or surrounded by water. Example, Romans might have settled in the place that is now called Serbia, because it has a pretty good climate, the land is fertile, there is a lot of natural resources and their are 2 huge rivers. And Incas and Mayas might have settled in the place that is now called Mexico because their are protected and hidden by the tries of the jungle and the jungle is fool of thousands of natural resources.People of the past used those criteria to know where to build their city. Quite hard to find a good place to live, don't you think so?

Understanding History and Archaeology

Last humanities class, the teacher asked us a really interesting question: What is history and why do we study it?
First I would say that history is the study of the past. It' the study of important people, events and ideas, in the past. I think it's very important to study history because it's the key to help us solve the future or present issues, by gathering evidence and finding patterns. It shows how everything started, changed, improved, how humans evolved and what we could do to evolve even more .It helps us understand what is happening now and it also help's us to be open minded and understand different cultures and to be creative. I personally love history because it is full of incredible stories and mysteries ,that are really interesting and make you learn while having fun!!!

So in conclusion I think  that history is one of the most interesting and important thing on earth  and as Sigmund Freud says "Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past." witch I interpret as meaning " History is so great, interesting and important, that only idiots wouldn't be interested in it"