Syria is the cradle of civilization, with a history of human settlement stretching back 5, 000 years.
The trip marks the first time they have set up camp close to a human settlement.
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Driving towards the peninsula's tip, it's clear that human settlement has hardly made a scratch on this barren landscape.
Dr Nichols suggests that this diversity is a result of a relatively long period of human settlement there.
Having largely resisted human settlement, the islands have become home to other creatures.
The needle allowed humans to clothe themselves, protecting themselves against cold weather and opening regions outside of the tropics to human settlement.
It also responds to the rapid expansion urbanisation of the past 100 years that often leads governments to call for quick solutions for human settlement.
In addition, the area tells the story of prehistoric human settlement.
Meiburg says he's trying to paint a picture of the wild world that existed before human settlement overtook the planet though it's not necessarily a political statement.
"Red tides occurred in Florida long before human settlement, and severe red tides were observed in the mid-1900s before the state's coastlines were heavily developed, " the commission said.
There is no permanent human settlement in the biosphere reserve.
The database of the Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme, a unit of the United Nations Center for Human Settlement (Habitat) was a source for some of the material in these reports.
The period of human settlement over the past 10, 000 years is known as the Holocene, during which time temperatures and hence sea levels (the two having a close correspondence) have been remarkable stable.
On the basis of satellite imagery of crop areas, vegetation and human settlement, Mr Go believes that both North Korea's crops and the population that tends them are more geographically scattered than outsiders have hitherto thought.
And long-term human settlement will follow at some point, mainly to develop mineral and energy resources available on the Moon, but also to emplace protective systems aimed at avoiding large asteroid impacts of the type we were all recently made aware with that grazing meteor strike in Chelyabinsk and the simultaneous near-miss by big-rock DA14.
New England was a small industrial community during the 19th Century and there is evidence continuous human activity and settlement in the area spanning at least a thousand years.
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Ramos has suggested that the claims of some 10, 000 human rights victims against the Marcoses should be included in any settlement.
Daschle told reporters he will meet with Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala and domestic policy advisor Bruce Reed this week on the proposed settlement with the tobacco industry.
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