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Prehistoric storage pits. Storage pits are underground cists that were used historically to protect the seeds for the following year's crops, and to stop surplus food from being eaten by insects and rodents. These underground pits were sometimes lined and covered, for example with slabs of stone and bark and tightly sealed with adobe.
These villages, called pueblos by Spanish colonists, were accessible only by rope or through rock climbing. These astonishing building achievements had modest beginnings. The first Ancestral Puebloan homes and villages were based on the pit-house, a common feature in the Basketmaker periods. Ancestral Puebloans are also known for their pottery.
Chumash Indian Museum is a Native American Interpretive Center in northeast Thousand Oaks, California. It is the site of a former Chumash village, known as Sap'wi (meaning "House of the Deer"). [1] It is located in Oakbrook Regional Park, a 432-acre park which is home to a replica of a Chumash village and thousand year-old Chumash pictographs.
The Flintstones. ) Bedrock at night, as seen in the closing credits of the first two seasons of The Flintstones. Bedrock is a fictional city from the animated television series The Flintstones. It is the primary setting of The Flintstones where the main characters (the Flintstone family) and their neighbors live.
Dolomite (rock) Dolomite (also known as dolomite rock, dolostone or dolomitic rock) is a sedimentary carbonate rock that contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite, CaMg (CO 3) 2. It occurs widely, often in association with limestone and evaporites, though it is less abundant than limestone and rare in Cenozoic rock beds (beds less than ...
Xiaodeng Island, also known as Xiaodeng, or Xiaodengbao in ancient times, is a bedrock island located in the southern part of Xiang'an, Xiamen Bay. It covers an area of approximately 0.9671 square kilometers and has an altitude of 28 meters. As of 2008, the population of the island was about 3,000 people. The island was originally located in ...
Kongthong, popularly called the Singing Village, [1] is a village and tourist attraction in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya state in the Northeast hilly region of India. [2][3] Kongthong, India's entry for United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)'s World's Best Village Contest, [3] is also aiming for the UNESCO Intangible ...
An edible seed [n 1] is a seed that is suitable for human or animal consumption. Of the six major plant parts, [ n 2 ] seeds are the dominant source of human calories and protein . [ 1 ] A wide variety of plant species provide edible seeds; most are angiosperms , while a few are gymnosperms .