They help to communicate the results of their research to the public. Our environment consists of the resources available to us. It presents us with challenges and constraints. Resources, in turn, depend on such factors as geography and climate, population density, built structures and infrastructures, and access to outside technology, materials and commodities. Every time we interact with our environment, we change it, so that we are left with new choices to make in the future.
History is an accumulation of past actions.
It is through the stories, memories and records of events that we recall the ways in which people interact with their environment and with each other. People are constantly uncovering new information about the past. This changes our understanding of history's influence. Prestige Prestige is a quality that comes to a person with high status which is communicated through culutrally defined objects. The Field Museum, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496.