The heirs of Oswaldo Cisneros, once one of Venezuela’s richest men, received unusual news last April: strangers were touring their oil fields in the Orinoco Belt. On paper, they remained the legitimate operators of the assets, but it soon became clear that, even as those visits took place in plain sight, a plan was being put in motion to take the fields away from them.

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Long before anyone built a kiln on purpose, the ground itself may have shown people how. A new study argues that a wave of prehistoric wildfires in the southern Levant, more than 9,000 years ago, scorched the region so thoroughly that it left behind naturally baked clay — and that Neolithic communities, watching the aftermath, […]

Una investigación publicada en la revista Geomorphology propone que los grandes incendios y la posterior erosión de los suelos ocurridos hace más de nueve mil años en la región del Levante sur crearon las condiciones ambientales y visuales que permitieron a las comunidades neolíticas descubrir las propiedades transformadoras del fuego sobre la arcilla. El trabajo, […]