Cerro Gordo

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

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La obra de Arriaza y Standen aquí presentada trata de problemas de antiguos pobladores que son, en cierta medida, invariables en el tiempo y propios del crecimiento humano. Las nuevas tecnologías y nuevos tipos de organizaciones sociales predisponen a los humanos al sedentarismo y producen además algún tipo de contaminación en el entorno. En esta obra se muestran evidencias que dicho sedentarismo afectó la calidad de vida de los pescadores Chinchorros, haciéndolos proclives a nuevas enfermedades e infecciones crónicas.

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