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Look, it’s an Orphan Soul Hanging like a Dead Crow from the Tree!

Go to the remotest parts of Pacific Ocean’s islands or the most inaccessible parts of Amazon’s evergreen forests, and you are sure to come across abandoned water bottles or plastic food containers.
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Makotai, Ancient Jews, and a 2500-year-old ship: globalization in an ancient world

The Iron Age remains unearthed in Kodungallur included a part of a wooden canoe and bollards (stakes used to secure canoes and boats) giving the first archaeological evidence that trade was indeed part of human activity even in those Iron Age days.
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