Wine WIne

05/10/2022

The structure's lower tiers remain today, though the temple and upper terraces at the top have been lost. To figure out what they looked like, specialists have used all kinds of technology and ancient writings (from historians like Herodotus, as well as the Bible). In her 2016 paper, A Ziggurat and the Moon, Amelia Sparavigna, an archaeological imaging specialist with the Polytechnic University of Turin, wrote, "[Ziggurats] were pyramidal structures with a flat top, with a core made up of sun-baked bricks, covered by fired bricks. The facings were often glazed in different colours...".

03/10/2022

He grew up in the remote Te Urewera National Park, and his iwi (tribe) of Tamakaimoana is a private iwi within the larger and better known Tūhoe tribe. For McLeod's family, food – and the methods of acquiring it – were not much removed from the ways of the first Māori in Aotearoa (New Zealand).

03/10/2022

03/10/2022

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01/10/2022

There is a risk, however, that we get bogged down in our own human perspective. "We're most certain about human consciousness and so often the neurological correlates and behavioural correlates that we're relying on are grounded in the human case," says Halina. "The further we move away from humans in terms of structure and behaviour and function, the less certain we are that we're actually tracking consciousness."