Monday's Anthro Classes

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Introduction to Anthro:


CUMULATIVE:
jackie_sparrow [2}
positive_angel [1]
priestly_purple [2]
prue_h [2]
sharon_valerii [1]
studentwillow [2]
Warning: If you have a 2 next to your name, you will receive detention after missing another class.



CUMULATIVE:
death_n_binky (1)
futurebucs_star (1)
jackie_sparrow (2)
positive_angel (2)
priestly_purple (2)
prue_h (2)
sharon_valerii (2)
studentwillow (2)
suzotchka (1)


Good work with the societies. This class we will discuss family. First, I have an article that I would like to pass out that describes two different types of families, then we will talk about what it means to be a family.

Homework: Describe your familial structure. Is it patrilineal or matrilineal? How would your family be different if it was switched from the norm?

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Egyptian Archaeology:


CUMULATIVE:
adolescent_alan [2]
alchemic_bean [1]
darkchylde_ [2]
missromana [1]
valentine_tart [1]
yuuko_sama [1]
Warning: If you have a 2 next to your name, you will receive detention after missing another class.



CUMULATIVE:
adolescent_alan [1]
alchemic_bean [1]
joolushko_tunai [1]
kawalsky [1]
missromana [1]
yuuko_sama [1]


Well done with the quiz. I will hand those back next class, but most of you got at least 80's. This class, we will be looking at yet more slides. This time, we are focusing on a site right near the Nile.

Homework: Describe the process of embalming and mummifying in full detail, as next class we will be looking at mummys!
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Linguistics:


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jackie_sparrow [1]
rory__gilmore [1]
wraithbaitjohn [1]



_fleurdelacour [1]
jackie_sparrow [1]
rory__gilmore [1]
wraithbaitjohn [1]


Today's lesson we will be studying the similarities between Greek and Latin's grammar structure. As you can see, both languages are similar except that Greek has a different alphabet, and there is no aorist tense. Obviously, there is a reason for this, and we will see that once comparing the two. Open up your books, please.

Homework: No homework for today :)

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Re: HOMEWORK [ON TIME]

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Egyptian Archaeology, Embalming and Mummification Homework
by Major C. Kawalsky

Embalming in Ancient Egypt was what was done to dead bodies to preserve them for the afterlife. (Question: you've been dead too. Do you remember an afterlife? Because I don't remember an afterlife. Maybe I just forgot.)

The Egyptians purified the body first, usually with water from the Nile, because there's not really anywhere else to get water. Then they cut the guy open and remove his internal organs before they get a chance to decompose, except for the heart. They leave the internal organs on the external and dry them out. Then they use a hook and stick it up the nose, scramble the brains and pull them out through the nostrils. (Note: ow.)

Then they dry the body out for forty days. They used Nile water after this to wash it again and then cover the body in oils to keep the skin all nice. Well, as nice as it can be after 40 days. Then the Egyptians wrap the dried internal organs in cloth and put them back in the body or they put them in canopic jars, depending on the time period (Imsety looks after the liver, Hapy looks after the lungs, Duamutef looks after the stomach and Qebehsenuef looks after the intestines, at least according to the book where I got this stuff). Then they stuff the body like a taxidermist does, only with sawdust, leaves, cloth and other dry stuff so the body looks more realistic and not like an empty shell.

Then they cover the body in good-smelling oils because the smell must be pretty bad by this time, and then they wrap it in cloth. The head and neck are wrapped first, then the fingers and toes. The arms and legs are wrapped separately (which kinda explains why the mummies in those B-grade movies can walk around and put their arms out).

In between layers the embalmer guys put amulet things to protect the body in its journey to the underworld. Then they tie the arms and legs together (but these can be untied if the mummy comes to life again, like in the B-grade movies) and they put a papyrus scroll with the spells from the Book of the Dead between its hands.