Category: Primitive people
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Ancient China can slide! But how?!?
Fifteenth-century Chinese engineers didn't so much reinvent the wheel as dispense with it altogether – opting to drag heavy stones for building the Forbidden City along a slippery artificial ice road instead of wheeling them. That, at least, is the upshot of the latest analysis of a 17th-century Chinese text. Such a method would be…
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Hunting to increase life!
Australian Lizards Thrive When Humans Hunt Them: Hunters are often thought of as bad for wildlife, but scientists have recently found that Aboriginal hunters in Australia actually boosted certain lizard populations by improving the locales where the reptiles live. Scientists investigated the Western Desert of Australia, where many native species have declined or gone extinct…
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The world as they knew it...
The world as they knew it (1). The world changes as our knowledge change. And yet it remains the same…. How can we see without seeing?
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Ice Age art, primitives, "primitives"...
An Ice Age art exchibition [1] illustrates something we want to forget... That "primitive" people were more civilized than we are. From the original "do it as you see it" art, we required thousands of years to reach AGAIN this level of abstraction... 😉 ~ In your face Picasso! ~
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Amazon tribes: Fight to death. Don't "preserve"...
Campaigners say the Brazilian government is failing to protect one of the world's most endangered tribes. [1] The Awa people are believed to number just 450, but their territory has attracted thousands of loggers and settlers. Last year a judge ordered all outsiders should leave the area within 12 months. But - surprise surprise! -…
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