In this blog I’m going talk in about the classification
of Chile to the next World Cup in Brazil 2014. The last Tuesday the Chilean team
played against Ecuador, in a match that would define to the coming classified
to Brazil 2014. At the same time, Uruguay played against Argentina with less
possibility to classify directly, but with the hope intact. The match in
Santiago was very intense since it appearance, with Chile attacking strongly
with players like Alexis Sanchez and Eduardo Vargas, while Ecuador had the speed
of players like Antonio Valencia and Jefferson Montero. Finally the match
finished with a result very close, 2-1, and the classification of both teams. Simultaneously
the streets of the Chilean cities began to fill with euphoric people and the
celebrations started. Particularly I watched in the news the great bash in Plaza
Italia and I could to see the fireworks shows in lots points of the city. Inevitable
those celebrations remember me the same happiness that I lived in 2009 when
also Chile classified against Colombia for the World Cup in South Africa. In
that opportunity I remember that I went with my school friends to celebrate to
the main square in Rancagua until the next day. Obviously I only remember that
I was drunk. But now I couldn’t to celebrate because I had an important test
the next day.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Blog 6: ancient wine in Israel
In this blog I’m going to write a summary about
news that appeared the last Friday 22 November in the paper online “The
guardian”, and whose title is “Ancient wine found on jars unearthed from
3,700-year-old cellar in Israel”. This article talks about a new discovery in
the ruins of Canaanite palace in Israel, where the archaeologists revealed the
existence of the 3,700-year-old
wine cellar. Likewise the archaeologists have discovered, through chemical
analysis, wine-making techniques.
On the other hand the
experts have inferred from the ceramics jars that the wine was a luxurious beverage for specials
events like banquets.
Particularly the researchers found this wine
cellar near of the town Nahariya in Northern Israel, where they found 40 jars
(each one with a capacity to store 60 litres). From this discovery, the
archaeologists think that may be more wine stored elsewhere, but the amount found
wouldn’t be enough to supply the local population, because it was reserved for
palace use.
About the content of the jars, the researchers
think that it would have held red and possibly white wine. In this point,
Patrick McGovern said that the discovery give to the archaeologists new
information about the development of winemaking in ancient Canaan, from which
it later spread to Egypt and across the Mediterranean. Now he suggest that is
necessary to determinate the ingredients of this wine.
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Friday, October 4, 2013
Blog 5: My next fieldwork
I’m going to talking about my next fieldwork in
Archaeology. In this case we’ll go to Rapel River, in the Fourth Region (near
of Monte Patria), for the subject called Methods and Technics of fieldwork 2,
and our principal aim is to prospect. In
mere words, the prospection consists in to walk long distances looking for archaeological
pieces in the surface, and so to identify likely sites. We’ll be for five days
in that place and the more important is to have the necessary equipment,
because in the opposite case I can lose in the mountains or even worse. Is for
this reason that I have to bring the basic implements, as a sunblock, hat, some
water bottles, a compass, a flashlight, jacket, and others.
Moreover this will be my second fieldwork in
the career, because the first it was in the subject Andean Cultures, where I
went to Talabre (near of San Pedro de Atacama), and it was amazing.
Now I expect that it will be a good experience
for my academic formation and for to strengthen my relations with my partners. But
unfortunately everything has a dark side, because when I get back to the class,
I’ll have to advance or finish some pending works, like reports or tests.
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