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The Beginnings of Mesoamerican Civilization - Inter-Regional Interaction and the Olmec

. Rosenswig frames the Olmec world from the perspective of the San Lorenzo polity.Mesoamerica is one of several cradles of civilisation in the world. These early islands of culture shared an Olmec artistic aesthetic, beginning approximately 1250 BCE (uncalibrated), that first defined Mesoamerica as an archipelago of complex societies that interacted with

The Future of Drylands - International Scientific Conference on Desertification and Drylands Research, Tunis, Tunisia, 19-21 June 2006

Major themes include the conservation of dryland biological and cultural diversity and the human dryland interface. Desertification, however, is a significant land degradation problem in the arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions of the worlds drylands as a result of extended droughts as well as mismanagement of range and cultivated lands. The contributions to The Future of Drylands - an international scientific conference held under the leadership of UNESCO - address these issues and offer practical solutions for combating desertification along with conserving and

Guns, Germs and Steel