Problems In Caral And The Land Rights Narrative
According to media reports , archaeologist Professor Ruth Shady Solis of San Marcos University in Lima, has been at the center of a conflict between herself and a family of local land developers. She has been the victim of death threats, intimidation, and in 2003, the professor was shot in the chest during an assault at the ancient complex of Caral.
This corrupt group, whether they are called squatters, or developers, or a local family, have been targeting and raiding this deeply important historical site. Professor Shady Solis has repeatedly called upon local and national authorities to intervene. Allegedly, the group claims that a previous left-wing regime granted them title to the land as part of an agrarian development program. However, Professor Shady Solis has cleared demonstrated that the family holds no legitimate claims to the land and has been resorting to criminal behavior.
A kaleidoscopic tour of the Volga and the history of the people who have resided by it.
Europe’s longest river weaves through what has come to be seen as Russia’s heartland, from the Valdai Hills north-west of Moscow to its delta near Astrakhan where it empties into the Caspian Sea. The Volga also links numerous peoples, including Bashkirs, Mari, Tatars, Udmurts and Russians, all of whom live near its shores. Yet, though its length exceeds all other rivers in Europe, the Volga is still significantly shorter than several of Russia’s Siberian arteries and, though renowned regionally, the river nevertheless remains somewhat inconspicuous among the world’s ‘greatest’ rivers. It is certainly less thought about, spoken of or eulogised than the Nile, the Amazon, the Mississippi, the Yangtze or, perhaps, even the Danube.
March 1, 2021
Baseball lost several legends in 2020, and our little corner of the baseball world was not spared. Joe Distelheim, a long-time editor and writer at
The Hardball Times, passed away on December 30 from Hodgkin’s lymphoma in Hilton Head, South Carolina. He was 78 years old. News of his passing only recently reached those of us who worked with him at
THT.
Joe left an indelible mark on
The Hardball Times during his extensive tenure there. Indeed, his tenure may have been the longest of anyone associated with the site: records going back that far are sketchy, but he worked for
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