Tag Archives: migration

Climate change, sea levels rising, countries sinking

In past blogs I have written about land which sank beneath the oceans after the Ice Age melt began over 10,000 years ago. Now the world knows the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps are melting and sea levels are rising … Continue reading

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Chechens

After a chain of migrations of various ethnic populations in ancient times from locations such as the Fertile Crescent as well as Northeast and Central Asia, what came to be known as the Chechen and Avar peoples settled in the Northern Caucasus … Continue reading

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Is This Humanity in the End Game?

I’m reproducing part of a summary of the Global Peace Index report, recently released. As we see the 21st century reveals humans are increasingly prone to destruction rather than evolving into a benign and beneficial force for good. Follow this … Continue reading

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Concept of borders

Each human may have an idea of their own space, and a sense of where they draw their border concept lines. A person may stand too close to us and we will say ‘”don’t crowd me” or “get out of … Continue reading

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Migration from colder climates to tropical areas

Costa Rica is one of the countries in Central America, first inhabited around 10000 years ago by tribes who had travelled across the world to this spot, and they found it covered with rainforest. Central American rainforests are environmentally sensitive … Continue reading

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From Africa to Australia, then thousands of years later, arrival of the Scots

I have put together what, to me, and surely any other curious person, is the fascinating current understanding of the ancient people who made their way to Australia, possible 40 to 70,000 years ago. Those humans knew how to light … Continue reading

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Movement of People of the African Sahara

I have been particularly interested in finding out why people migrated out of Africa, but there is also the story of those who remained.  The adaptable indigenous human, always so ingenious in the most hostile environments. Yet becoming part of … Continue reading

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Coveted Gold

The motivation of humans to control others, destroy those who stand in their way, seems to spring from coveting that which belongs to others. I have researched the hunger for gold prior to the desire of Columbus to set sail … Continue reading

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