I'll be picking up this issue of Archaeology Magazine

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Diamond on the Carpet

Archaeologists think Guns, Germs, and Steel author Jared Diamond misrepresents the downfall of ancient civilizations to score points for today's environmental movement. What does their criticism of the Pulitzer Prize winning biologist tell us about his biases, and how does it reveal their own?

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Re: arriving when a conversation is almost over

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It was the all-important element of surprise: I mouse-overed expecting some subtle, hard-to-see error, probably one that I couldn't spot at all without knowing what the URL was supposed to be -- and understood exactly what had happened at the first glance.

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