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...hour. Some authorities called it terrorism, but others said the fires had been set just for the hell of it. "What's really fueling these fires is the heritage of pastoralism," says Michel Thinon, a researcher at the Mediterranean Institute of Ecology and Paleoecology in Marseilles. He argues that millennia of human activity have favored the growth of pine forests, which are prone to fires, over the hardwoods that originally grew in the region. Now with more people than ever along the Med, municipal officials still obdurately refuse to reverse course. "Instead of planting the oak and ash, mayors plant...
...chapter “Enter Conflict,” LeBlanc describes the excavation sites of Mimbre villages in southwestern Mexico. The Mimbres, who flourished three thousand millennia ago, have traditionally been viewed as farmers. Yet the remains of Mimbre settlements have been found frequently on hilltops, which are inconvenient for farming and prone to lightning strikes...
...park advantageously nestled in a UNESCO World Heritage Site that includes Leshan's own ancient buddha, the largest such stone statue in the world. But during the Bamiyan replica's construction, Oriental Buddha's workers allegedly destroyed dozens of the famed Mahaoya tombs, architectural marvels that date back two millennia and are also under UNESCO protection. Local residents and archaeologists are furious about Oriental Buddha's purportedly cavalier treatment of the tombs, wooden structures that had hung from the Leshan cliffs at seemingly impossible angles. "Why did they have to destroy something with so much history to build something silly...
...could be a Romanov in the Russian Revolution, a Vietnamese child during the war, a woman in today’s Afghanistan. But though this is a tale of modern-day international politics, her dialogue was crafted millennia ago by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides...
...undergraduate education must not only be to improve the quality of scientific education to prepare students for the technological developments of the next century but also to revitalize the teaching of the humanities to ensure that the students do not lose touch with cultural developments of the past three millennia...