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technology). Between the Paleolithic Age and Neolithic Age, wall paintings were a major cultural change to humanities. Paleolithic life comes largely from paintings found in caves. Most of these paintings were naturalistic. For example, ‘many of the animals-bison, mammoths, reindeer, boars, wolves, and horses- gracefully jump, run, and romp, conveying a remarkable sense of animation.’ These paintings are done with pigments used of mineral oxides in the colors black, brown, red, and yellows.…

Before King Ferdinand II sponsored one of the most legendary expeditions within the history of mankind, he had his mind set on finding a western sea route to Asia, China, and India. However, King Ferdinand never would have guessed in his wildest dreams that he would stumble onto something greater—the New World. Although King Ferdinand died centuries ago, his memory is forever immortalized around the discovery of America, along with Christopher Columbus, the legendary Italian explorer. Soon after…

Cloning pets might not be the holy grail that everyone is hoping for. In 1996, scientists were celebrating the success in cloning their first mammal, Dolly the sheep. Recently, they found a way to clone monkeys using the same technique. Now, anyone willing to pay the price can get their beloved pet cloned. But cloning has some serious downsides. Cloning a pet can be very expensive and uses up hard-earned money. In addition, cloning a pet has countless of side effects and cloned animals have…

I don't really have a pony in the race of the vegetarians vs. the Paleo style meat eaters. Whatever keeps me cancer free will work for me. I did thoroughly read and enjoy the book "The China Study", which has a very convincing theory that cancer was correlated to increased animal protein intake. However, there was one big question left unanswered, which I proceeded to go out and answer for myself. Why have there been some tribes and cultures, namely the Native American "Inuit", Inuit being the…

A great leader of the Crow named Elapuash once said, “A good country because the Great Spirit put it in exactly the right place.” When he had said that, he was talking about the Crow’s homeland, which is now Montana, near the Bighorn Mountains.The Crow had many previous names, Great leaders, and traditions. The Crow also had many defense tactics, own religion and they still have their land today, more than 8000 people live on the crow reservation. Their land used to offer plentiful resources and…

Canada Canada consists of three territories and ten provinces. The three territories are Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The ten provinces are British Columbia, Alberta, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan. The major difference between a Canadian province and a territory is that provinces receive their power and authority from the Constitution Act 1867, whereas territorial governments have the powers…

Pedestrian” warns the reader that to survive in the world everything has to adapt to it. Firstly, adaptation is key to survival; even though, some may argue that change is the reason things don’t survive. When the Europeans came to America, they lured the bison to their location for hunting. These mammals were one of the largest population in America: “By 1491, North…

sapiens did partake in cannibalistic activities. Cannibalism was not the only way that Archaic Homo sapiens acquired their food. “Abundant fauna and flora recovered from Bilzingsleben include macaques, forest elephants, steppe and forest rhinoceros, bison, deer, large horses, wild oxen, and bears” (Conroy and Pontzer 460). At many sites, the medium or large fauna found were gazelles, boars, and deer, and smaller fauna found in many sites were tortoises, hares, and foxes (Lieberman and Shea,…

1) By a “commons”, Hardin refers to a shared resource, such as public land, National Parks, and the seas. One of Hardin’s most prominent example refers to herdsmen on commonly-shared land. Each herdsman will attempt to raise as much cattle as possible, Hardin argues, on the land. However, the land can only sustain a certain number of cattle. The tragedy occurs when each herdsman continues to add more and more cattle, in order to maximize their profit, without thinking about the negative…

Why is fire an important part of Yellow Stone? How does this seem to affect the habitat of it? What is the history behind fires in Yellowstone National Park? Does climate change play a role? These are all the things that I am going to talk about but first, we need to understand what fire regimes are? A fire regime is a term that gives a common pattern in how fires naturally happen in a certain ecosystem over a longer period of time. “Scientists classify fire regimes using a combination of…