Somewhere around 69-77,000 years ago a supervolcano centered on what is now Lake Toba in northern Sumatra, Indonesia (just to the south of Thailand in Southeast Asia) exploded, clouding the Earth with a large amount of volcanic ash. We call ….
Year: 2014
There are two factors that have always influenced human history: the availability of food and the proximity of water. Water is not only vital for sustaining life, it has served as barriers to protect isolated populations and as roadways for ….
Social creatures like us find ways to share tasks that perpetuate their communities. Cockroaches are not social even though they live together because they can scatter to the four winds and as long as they find mates they will survive. ….
Historians have long suspected that there was a 1200-year cycle in the rise and fall of cultures around the world. Although this blog has focused mainly on the Middle East and Europe, the 1200-year cycle has been noted in the ….