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Arctic explorer Bernard Buigues contemplates the Jarkov woolly elephant tusks emerging from the frozen landscape in Siberia, 1998. These tusks are about three meters (10ft) and over 45kg (100lbs) each. There is a growing body of evidence that overhunting is the main cause of the extinction of the mammoths. (Francis Latreille / ©The World As It Once Was) — 29 Nov 2021

The World As It Once Was: The Shifting Baseline In Iconic Megafauna

By Dr George Dian Balan

History & Tradition, Sustainability & The Environment

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Centuries of trophy and commercial hunting, isolation in captivity and poaching, have caused a baseline shift in the perception of iconic megafauna such as Asian and African elephants, which should actually be benchmarked with their species of 3500...
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Arctic explorer Bernard Buigues contemplates the Jarkov woolly elephant tusks emerging from the frozen landscape in Siberia, 1998. These tusks are about three meters (10ft) and over 45kg (100lbs) each. There is a growing body of evidence that overhunting is the main cause of the extinction of the mammoths. (Francis Latreille / ©The World As It Once Was) — 29 Nov 2021

The World As It Once Was: The Shifting Baseline In Iconic Megafauna

By Dr George Dian Balan

History & Tradition, Sustainability & The Environment

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Centuries of trophy and commercial hunting, isolation in captivity and poaching, have caused a baseline shift in the perception of iconic megafauna such as Asian and African elephants, which should actually be benchmarked with their species of 3500...
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Plato’s Prehistoric Athens Destroyed In A Neolithic Landslide — 16 Aug 2021

Plato’s Prehistoric Athens Destroyed In A Neolithic Landslide

By Dr. Phil Flambas

Archaeology & Science, Sustainability & The Environment

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The Ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote his Atlantis story in two documents called the Timaeus and Critias. These writings date from about 360 BC and are the only known works that describe the Atlantean civilization in detail. Most modern...
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Plato’s Prehistoric Athens Destroyed In A Neolithic Landslide — 16 Aug 2021

Plato’s Prehistoric Athens Destroyed In A Neolithic Landslide

By Dr. Phil Flambas

Archaeology & Science, Sustainability & The Environment

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The Ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote his Atlantis story in two documents called the Timaeus and Critias. These writings date from about 360 BC and are the only known works that describe the Atlantean civilization in detail. Most modern...
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Notturno di Piazza del Duomo a Milano by Angelo Inganni (before 1866) (Public Domain) — 14 May 2021

The Ancient Language Of Sacred Sound: The Acoustic Science Of The Divine

By david elkington

Archaeology & Science, Sustainability & The Environment

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It is an astonishing fact that, from the end of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’ and the settlement of Europe, a massive building program took place that was to transform Europe in a hitherto unsuspected way. Shortly after the construction of the...
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Notturno di Piazza del Duomo a Milano by Angelo Inganni (before 1866) (Public Domain) — 14 May 2021

The Ancient Language Of Sacred Sound: The Acoustic Science Of The Divine

By david elkington

Archaeology & Science, Sustainability & The Environment

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It is an astonishing fact that, from the end of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’ and the settlement of Europe, a massive building program took place that was to transform Europe in a hitherto unsuspected way. Shortly after the construction of the...
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José de Madrazo's painting of the death of Viriathus — 15 Mar 2021

The Hillforts Of Iberia: Ruins Of Proto-Celtic Tribes Who Resisted The Romans

By tom hamilton

History & Tradition, Sustainability & The Environment

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Dotted like an ancient matrix in western Iberia are hillforts that once belonged to the ancient Celtic peoples of Iberia. Some of these forts were dismantled, others left untouched, but they were all abandoned by those who built them. When...
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José de Madrazo's painting of the death of Viriathus — 15 Mar 2021

The Hillforts Of Iberia: Ruins Of Proto-Celtic Tribes Who Resisted The Romans

By tom hamilton

History & Tradition, Sustainability & The Environment

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Dotted like an ancient matrix in western Iberia are hillforts that once belonged to the ancient Celtic peoples of Iberia. Some of these forts were dismantled, others left untouched, but they were all abandoned by those who built them. When...
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The Harvesters by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565) Brussels (GattoCeliaco /CC BY-SA 4.0) — 11 Jan 2021

Food Security: Rethinking The Agricultural Revolution

By jim willis

Archaeology & Science, Sustainability & The Environment

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The Agricultural, or Neolithic (New-Stone Age) Revolution, marks the birth of modern civilization. Traditional wisdom says that is when we started to become us. That is when we began to grow crops, build cities, develop trade routes, practice...
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The Harvesters by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565) Brussels (GattoCeliaco /CC BY-SA 4.0) — 11 Jan 2021

Food Security: Rethinking The Agricultural Revolution

By jim willis

Archaeology & Science, Sustainability & The Environment

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The Agricultural, or Neolithic (New-Stone Age) Revolution, marks the birth of modern civilization. Traditional wisdom says that is when we started to become us. That is when we began to grow crops, build cities, develop trade routes, practice...
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Hunting Buffalo by Alfred Jacob Miller (1858) Walters Art Museum (Public Domain) — 28 Dec 2020

Preserving The Beasts That Powered The Canadian First Nations

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition, Sustainability & The Environment

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In Canada the term ‘First Nations’ represents the aboriginal communities who draw their origins from the pre-contact era (before the arrival of Europeans) up to the present day. Historians generally describe six main geographic groups of...
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Hunting Buffalo by Alfred Jacob Miller (1858) Walters Art Museum (Public Domain) — 28 Dec 2020

Preserving The Beasts That Powered The Canadian First Nations

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition, Sustainability & The Environment

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In Canada the term ‘First Nations’ represents the aboriginal communities who draw their origins from the pre-contact era (before the arrival of Europeans) up to the present day. Historians generally describe six main geographic groups of...
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The Borneo elephants are about 70% smaller than the Asian elephant, with a long tail hanging down to the ground and a relative short trunk. Their faces are baby-like with a cute appearance. (Image © Willem Daffue) — 15 Oct 2018

The Enigma of the Origins of the Borneo Elephants

By Willem Daffue

History & Tradition, Sustainability & The Environment

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Through history, at least 32 elephant species have existed on planet earth, some became extinct as early as the Miocene epoch (23.03 to 5.333 million years ago), but most species were exterminated by man. Since Homo Sapiens migrated out of Africa...
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The Borneo elephants are about 70% smaller than the Asian elephant, with a long tail hanging down to the ground and a relative short trunk. Their faces are baby-like with a cute appearance. (Image © Willem Daffue) — 15 Oct 2018

The Enigma of the Origins of the Borneo Elephants

By Willem Daffue

History & Tradition, Sustainability & The Environment

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Through history, at least 32 elephant species have existed on planet earth, some became extinct as early as the Miocene epoch (23.03 to 5.333 million years ago), but most species were exterminated by man. Since Homo Sapiens migrated out of Africa...
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Open Sky and a Yurt in the Orkhon Valley (Public Domain) — 24 Jan 2018

The Tapestry of Early Turkic Myth is Woven with Tales of Wolves, Horses and a Great Tree of Life

By AliciaMcDermott2

Mythology & Mystery, Sustainability & The Environment

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Turkic peoples comprise a variety of ethnic groups living in northern, eastern, central and western Asia, northwestern China and some parts of eastern Europe. Historically they were established in China after the 6th century BC. Early Turkic people...
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Open Sky and a Yurt in the Orkhon Valley (Public Domain) — 24 Jan 2018

The Tapestry of Early Turkic Myth is Woven with Tales of Wolves, Horses and a Great Tree of Life

By AliciaMcDermott2

Mythology & Mystery, Sustainability & The Environment

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Turkic peoples comprise a variety of ethnic groups living in northern, eastern, central and western Asia, northwestern China and some parts of eastern Europe. Historically they were established in China after the 6th century BC. Early Turkic people...
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The Sky, the Sun & the King: Mischievous and Divine Monkeys in Asian Myth — 11 Jan 2017

The Sky, the Sun & the King: Mischievous and Divine Monkeys in Asian Myth

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery, Sustainability & The Environment

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For the past few thousand years, the Indian Epic Ramayana has been among the most important literary and oral texts of South and Southeast Asia. Every autumn, Lord Rama's victory over the demon king Ravana is celebrated through plays and dances in...
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The Sky, the Sun & the King: Mischievous and Divine Monkeys in Asian Myth — 11 Jan 2017

The Sky, the Sun & the King: Mischievous and Divine Monkeys in Asian Myth

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery, Sustainability & The Environment

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For the past few thousand years, the Indian Epic Ramayana has been among the most important literary and oral texts of South and Southeast Asia. Every autumn, Lord Rama's victory over the demon king Ravana is celebrated through plays and dances in...
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