"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Monday, August 24, 2009

Man vs the "Natural" Environment

Ancient Man Hurt Coasts, Paper Says - NYTimes.com:

"...anthropologists in general were not used to thinking that people exploited marine environments before 4,000 or so years ago, when sea levels that had been rising since the end of the last ice age more or less stabilized. Much of the evidence of earlier coastal settlements has vanished under the waves, he said."

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