Matera, in southern Italy, is a city whose history dates back far. In 2019, the unique architecture of Matera, particularly the Sassi, helped the city earn the title of European Capital of Culture. Matera shows signs of permanent human settlement that date from the Paleolithic era to the pre...
They were excavating at Buena Vista, an ancient settlement in the foothills of the Andes an hour's drive north of Lima, Peru. A dozen archaeology students hauled rocks out of a sunken temple and lobbed them to each other in a human chain. Suddenly, Bernardino Ojeda, a Peruvian archaeologist...
is known to exist in historical sources, there is little doubt the wreck was targeted for opportunistic salvage and scavenging by the crews of nearby whaling stations, as well as local Aboriginal people and the earliest inhabitants of Yilki, the area’s first permanent European settlement. ...
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The museum also has a permanent exhibition of how medicine and surgery developed over time. It's a reminder of just how lucky we are today. One in three patients died back then, more often from infection than the operation itself. It took decades later before scientists discovered that germs...
The European Neolithization 鈭 6000-4000 BC represents a pivotal change in human history when farming spread and the mobile style of life of the hunter-foragers was superseded by the agrarian culture. Permanent settlement structures and agricultural production systems required fundamental innovations in ...
time. drudge got a sharp letter from a blumenthal lawyer the next day and very quickly retracted the story. he also publicly apologized to the blumenthals. they sued for libel, slander, and invasion of privacy—asking for $30 million—with the case dragging on until a settlement in 2001. ...
As per the settlement agreement, Google was forced to pay $700 million to consumers and the states and temporarily change their Play Store policies to allow competition from other app stores.[6] This outcome was indicative of Google’s culpability in engaging in anticompetitive practices, and, ...