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UCSB — The Current — A Chumash cultural burn reignites ancient practice for wilderness conservation

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October 5, 2023

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Wayne Chapman uses a hand drill to start a coal, which Chumash Elder Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto (seated) will use to start the fire.

A Chumash cultural burn reignites ancient practice for wilderness conservation

Reviving a practice that had been lost for generations, the Chumash community and the university partner on a cultural burn at North Campus Open Space.

A prehistoric cosmic airburst preceded the advent of agriculture in the Levant

Archeological evidence shows that a cosmic airburst in prehistoric Syria initiated a climate change that forced the first shift from foraging to agriculture.

UC Santa Barbara joins new LA-area regenerative medicine consortium

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Los Catanes del Norte will perform music from different regions in Mexico, including corridos, rancheras and boleros norteños.

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Professor and poet Cherríe Moraga presents her journeys through California, marking her footsteps alongside Native ecologies and Chicanx genealogies, to inaugurate the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s new public event series, “Imagining California.”