Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schmidt was led to his discovery by Haya elders, who showed him a "shrine tree" that they said marked the site of ancient iron smelters long worked by their people. Because the Haya can now buy inexpensive, European-made steel tools and make more money raising coffee and other crops, they stopped producing their own steel some 50 years ago. Thus the only Haya who could recall details of the steelmaking process were very old, and as Schmidt and Avery write, this knowledge was "threatened every day by the passage of time, by death and by age-related infirmities occurring...
...sketchy; the earliest reported quake, an apparently minor temblor described by a Spanish explorer, was chronicled in 1769. Seeking evidence of earlier quakes, Sieh in 1974 began a painstaking tour of hundreds of miles of the San Andreas Fault in central and southern California. The following year, under an ancient marsh that straddles the fault 88 km (55 miles) northeast of downtown Los Angeles, he struck pay dirt...
Parliament members from Begin's own party and several nationalist groups said yesterday they vowed to support Jews settling in their ancient homeland in the West Bank...
...dedicated Italophile, McDaniel traveled extensively throughout the Italian peninsula and wrote "Roman Private Life and Its Survivals," a book that compared and contrasted modern Italy and ancient Rome...
...worst damage occurred in the ancient city of Tabas, where the earthquake registered the most severe tremors. Observers in Tabas said yesterday the city was completely flattened, as most of the city's buildings were completely destroyed in the warthquake...