This BBC documentary showed how archeologists and people found strange paintings and unusual human remains in rock shelters. According to Annette Laming-Emperairee in the video, she says that the remains didn’t belong with the current fossils they’ve had and the ones they’ve found are as old as the ice age. If this is true, it shows that Indians and Mongolians weren’t the first thought people to enter the world. It also shows that certain theories about the first kinds of people may probably be disproved. When this discovery occurred the archeologists began to dig farther into to the earth to see if they can find anything else. As they dug they found more paintings, stone-like tools, and found human occupation in animal bones and charcoal. After digging into about 40,000-50,000 years old of layer they found what is to believe the oldest skulls in the Americas. The skulls are believed to be about 9,000-10,000 years old, which in theory archaeologists believe the early world was discovered tens of thousands years earlier than believed.…
The Carrizo plain is a large enclosed grassland area that is approximately 50 miles long and 15 miles across. Its location is in California spread between the Kern and San Luis Obispo counties. The Carrizo plains national monument is the single largest native grasslands that remain in California. Its unique ecosystem is home to much wildlife and has the largest concentration of some of the most endangered species of animals in California. The San Andres fault line runs through the plains and is unique because of the ease on is able to view the fractures of the fault from the plains floor. The plains are home to many archeological sites as well that have been named national historic landmarks.…
THE BIGGEST POPULATION SHIFT OF MODERN TIMES HAS been the colonization of the New World by Europeans, and the resulting conquest, numerical reduction, or complete disappearance of i1OSt groups of Native Americans (American Indians). As I explained in Chapter I, the New World was initially colonized around or before 11,000 BCE by way of Alaska, the Bering Strait, and Siberia. Complex agricultural societies gradually arose in the Americas far to the south of that entry route, developing in complete isolation from the emerging complex societies of the Old World. After that initial colonization from Asia, the sole well-attested further contacts between the New World and Asia involved only hunter-gatherers living on opposite sides of the Bering Strait, plus an inferred transpacific voyage that introduced the sweet potato from South America to Polynesia. As for contacts of New World peoples with Europe, the sole early ones involved the Norse who occupied Greenland in very small numbers between 4D, 986 and about 1 500. But those Norse visits had no discernible impact on Native American societies. Instead, for practical purposes the collision of advanced Old World and New World societies began abruptly in 1492 CE, with Christopher Columbus's "discovery" of Caribbean islands densely populated by Native Americans. The most dramatic moment in subsequent European-Native American relations was the first encounter between the Inca emperor Atahuallpa and the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro at the Peruvian highland town of Cajamarca on November 16, 1532. Atahuallpa was absolute monarch of the largest and most advanced state in the New World, while Pizarro represented the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (also known as King Charles I of Spain), monarch of the most powerful state in Europe. Pizarro, leading a ragtag group of 168 Spanish soldiers, was in unfamiliar terrain, ignorant of the local…
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La Llorona or the Crying woman is a legend that goes back century’s in the Mexican culture. Some of the earliest recorded sightings are legends of The Aztecs, who say that the goddess Cihuacoatl took the form of a woman dressed all in white and spent the nights weeping about the impending doom of the native people by the Spanish conquistidors.…
Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges Water Allocation Plan FACT SHEET | DECEMBER 2013 Foreword from Sharon Starick, Presiding Member of the South Australian Murray-Darling Basin NRM Board I am very pleased to share the news that the water allocation plan for the Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges has been adopted by the Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, the Honourable Ian Hunter MLC. The development of the plan has been a long journey over many years. Numerous members of the community and active regional industry groups have played a very important role in helping the board deliver this blueprint for the region’s water management.…
Spanakopita. It’s not “spanigobida,” not “spans” or “spinach pie.” Spanakopita. You have to say it like a real Greek- “Spanakopita.” I cringe at any other rendition, any other attempt. Here’s the ultimate Greek dish: Phyllo dough with oil and spinach with feta filling. It brings great nostalgia, great pride in my heritage (not many people I know are Greek). It prompts great curiosity; how could such a simple meal have this profound effect on me?…
Sicily 's greatest natural attraction is also its highest mountain. To the ancient Greeks, Mount Etna was the realm of Vulcan, god of fire, and the home of the one-eyed monster known as the Cyclops. At approximately 3350 meters, it is Europe 's highest active volcano. The height of its summit changes with each eruption, and over the centuries a few lava flows have reached the coast. Over 1200 square meters of Etna 's surface is covered with solidified lava. Etna offers skiing in the Winter months and breathtaking hikes in the woods during the Summer. There are also a number of smaller peaks on the slopes of Etna, and some interesting caverns. Since Etna is a strato volcano, with relatively cool lava temperatures and numerous openings (vents), nobody ever knows precisely where on its vast surface the next eruption will be. Etna 's long recorded history has proven invaluable to the world 's volcanologists. Mount Etna is said to erupt in a Strombolian style in which the mountain erupts like a fountain from a single vent or crater.…
Mount Olympus Sacred Destin James I. Evan HUM/105 14 January 2 Ms. Jean Wh Origins & Purpose • Formed after the Titanomanchy (War of the Titans) • Created to be a meeting and dwelling place for the Twelve Olympians The Twelve Olympians • Zeus, king of the gods, god of the sky, lightning, thunder, law, order and justice • Hera, queen of the gods, goddess of marriage and childbirth The Twelve Olympians • Poseidon, Zeus 's brother, god of the seas, earthquakes and tidal waves. • Hestia Zeus’s sister, goddess of the hearth, family, and domestic life • Demeter, Zeus’s sister, goddess of fertility, agriculture, nature and seasons…
Employers, job seekers, and puzzle lovers everywhere delight in William Poundstone 's HOW WOULD YOU MOVE MOUNT FUJI? "Combines how-to with be-smart for an audience of job seekers, interviewers, Wired-style cognitive science hobbyists, and the onlooking curious. . . . How Would You Move Mount Fuji? gallops down entertaining sidepaths about the history of intelligence testing, the origins of Silicon Valley, and the brain-jockey heroics of Microsoft culture. "…
CHIEF Justice Renato Corona enjoyed tax-free allowances and only issued certification on spending them and not receipts.…
Landforms: Mayon Volcano, Mount Pinatubo, Tropical rainforests, Mt. Apo, Rio grande de Cagayan, Laguna de Bay and Lake Lanao.…
Nepal has a rich geography. The mountainous north has eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including the highest point on Earth, Mount Everest, called Sagarmatha (सगरमाथा) in Nepali. It contains more than 240 peaks over 20,000 ft (6,096 m) above sea level.[8] The fertile and humid south is heavily urbanised.…
One of my favorite places in Brazil is Pão de Açúcar, or Sugar loaf Mountain. It is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, at the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean, Rising 396 meters or 1,299 feet above the harbor. Its name is said to refer to its resemblance to the traditional shape of concentrated refined loaf sugar which is an important part of Brazilian history and culture today. Brazil became the biggest producer of sugar in the mid-17th century but then lost its position for many decades, reconquering it since the decade of 1970, when the governments created a project called ProÁlcool or Programa Nacional do Álcool…
Everyone wants to climb the top of the mountain. But all the happiness really happens while climbing it.…