What is interesting is that if we take the intersection of these circles – the current and past northern polar zones (from about 66° N) over the past 130,000 years, the area highlighted in the following figure has remained in the polar zone continuing to accumulate snow and ice over thi...
These sites from the past civilizations are for all humans.We must live in them today and also pass them on to future generations.They teach us about our past and represent the great achievements of our ancestors and make us proud.World heritage has historical,cultural and econo...
destructed. As we mentioned, the transition from Type o to Type I is the most dangerous one, since we still have all the savagery, fundamentalism, racism, and so on of the past. It is possible that one day, when we visit the stars, we may find evidence of Type 0 civilizations[...
The prospects for achieving the SDGs by 2030 have now become significantly worse since the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe in early 2020. In March, the estimated global cost of the pandemic for 2020 in terms of forgone world GDP was $1 trillion USD (Garten,2020); by May, the ...
If they were to solely rely upon science fiction (and nothing else), they would have inferred that the people of today had the knowledge of time travel, space travel, alien civilizations, artificial intelligence, and the ability to colonize planets, harness the stars, and use advanced weaponry...
There are prevailing preconceived notions that the indigenous peoples of America and Canada were primitive, uncivilized, nomadic, had no written language and didn’t have any of the advanced knowledge and technologies the Europeans had. Evidence has been turning up since the beginning of European arr...
In the past, archaeologists have proposed three main models of the origins of the Taiwanese Neolithic (Fig. 1). (1) One general model of Chinese neolithization (‘Chinese Interaction Sphere’, CIS) proposes for Taiwan an indigenous neolithic transition in coastal south China, becoming part of ...
Archeological evidence clearly reveals that human alteration of the environment through construction activities extends thousands of years into the past. Today, the dominant forms of construction activity include (1) urbanization involving the construction of residential and commercial buildings and (2) road...
of a white, marvellous and ‘pure’ past (Brinkmann et al.2010,2017; Rose-Greenland2016, for an overview of the reception of the exhibition ‘Gods in Color’, or the more recent exhibition ‘Chroma: Ancient Sculputre in Color’ that is organised by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in ...
Throughout history, the sea has always been present in the economic activities of all civilizations as a food resource, a means of transportation and commercial trade. In recent years the term Blue Economy (BE) has become a concept closely related to maritime resources and developed economies in...