What is the location of all these artifacts we found.. from anywhere in the world?

Question

For anthropology we are doing a simulation. We are given a bunch of different artifacts that have been discovered and it is or job to determine the location from anywhere in the world. The artifacts found are: Stone points, chipped stone blade, decorated dark bowl, chipped stone ovoid, flat stone, rounded stone - pecked and abraded, metal cylinder, long wooden wands, firemaking tools, animal hide, sinew- dried and stretched, braided vegetable fibers, shell fragments, animal bones, egg shells, nuts, incised bird bones, scraps of animal hide, cylinder of bark and hide, long wooden wand, woven vegetable fibers that appear to be in a shoe shape, charred animal bone, tortoise shell, bone shafts.

Any anthropologists out there or even any other people who might be able to get an idea of the location please tell.

Answer 1

It appears that the question is designed for research and comparison. Any of the artifacts you've mentioned could belong to any polity thru out the world.

Answer 2

shell fragments and tortoise shell obviously come from a region that is coastal and probabbly a warm climate, so more equatorial.

Stone points, chipped stone blade, decorated dark bowl, chipped stone ovoid, flat stone, rounded stone - pecked and abraded ,charred animal bone,firemaking tools, animal hide, sinew- dried and stretched, braided vegetable fibers,shoe shape all indicate a fire using, stone age technology common to several continents.

metal cylinder is a tough one...if its iron that eliminates pre columbian America's...... leaving Eupore and Asia.

Classically, the Iron Age is taken to begin in the 12th century BC in the ancient Near East, ancient Persia, ancient India (with the post-Rigvedic Vedic civilization), and ancient Greece (with the Greek Dark Ages). In other regions of Europe, it started much later. The Iron Age began in the 8th century BC in Central Europe and the 6th century BC in Northern Europe. Iron use, in smelting and forging for tools, appears in West Africa by 1200 BC, making it one of the first places for the birth of the Iron Age.[1][2][3]



An Iron Age thatched roof, Butser Farm, Hampshire, United KingdomThe Iron Age is divided into two subsections, Iron I and Iron II. Iron I (1200-1000) illustrates both continuity and discontinuity with the previous Late Bronze Age. There is no definitive cultural break between the thirteenth and twelfth century throughout the entire region, although certain new features in the hill country, Transjordan and coastal region may suggest the appearance of the Aramaean and Sea People groups. There is evidence, however, that shows strong continuity with Bronze Age culture, although as one moves later into Iron I the culture begins to diverge more significantly from that of the late second millennium.

Iron II (1000-550) witnessed the rise of the states of Judah and Israel in the tenth-ninth century. These small principalities exercise considerable control over their particular regions due in part to the decline of the great powers, Assyria and Egypt, from about 1200 to 900. Beginning in the eighth century and certainly in the seventh century, Assyria reestablishes its authority over the eastern Mediterranean area and exercises almost complete control. The northern state of Israel is obliterated in 722/721 by King Sargon and its inhabitants taken into exile. Judah, left alone, gradually accommodates to Assyrian control, but towards the end of the seventh century it does revolt as the Assyrian empire disintegrated. Judah's freedom was short-lived, however, and eventually snuffed out by the Chaldean kings who conquered Jerusalem and took some of the ruling class into exile to Babylon. During the period of exile in Babylon, the area, particularly from Jerusalem south, shows a mark decline. Other areas just north of Jerusalem are almost unaffected by the catastrophe that befell Judah. [1]

The Iron Age is usually said to end in the Mediterranean with the onset of historical tradition during Hellenism and the Roman Empire, in India with the onset of Buddhism and Jainism, in China with the onset of Confucianism, and in Northern Europe with the early Middle Ages.

The arrival of iron use in various areas is discussed in more detail below, broadly in chronological order.

Answer 3

Actually, most all the items there could have been found in New Mexico. Except the cylinder. "Clovis Man" date back, ummmm, 20,000 years? You'll have to Google Clovis Man. But then, all ya gotta worry about is a location for the metal - which could be Greece or Turkey.

Answer 4

Blindfold yourself, and stick a pushpin in the map of the North America, Europe, The mediteranian area, Indonesia, South America, actually just stick a pin in any land mass of our planet. These items are all tools created by the aboriginal residents in almost all areas of our globe.  Because trade existed between different tribes, shell fragments from ocean mollusks, might be found in Utah.  But these items were created by probably every tribe of our ancient ancestors.

Answer 5

I would look up the Orkney Islands in Scotland.

There was a complex scoiety that used bones to build the roofs to their homes.

All of the homes were built into the sides of hill and were connected by tunnels.

There were tools that were discovered in the homes.

Also they would seperate their compost.

Bones, plant matter, and then scraps of food.

I would definitely say costal.

Try to determine what type of shells. Could they be clams, mussels, or just sand crabs.

It wouldn't necessarily need to be of warm area, the description/size of the turtle shell could help you figure which family/ species it originated from.

Then look at migrating patterns of turtle and look at societies that inhabited those areas. Then just try to compare the tools to the societies and try to find the best fit.

Sounds like a tough project.

Good luck!!

Answer 6

All of those can be found anywhere in the world. The tortoise shells sounds more like South America and Asia than Europe though.