Market confidence is once again drying up, just as everyone is about to head off for the beach - and the half-measures agreed at last month's Summit are not even half-implemented.

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In the Middle East people started to build settlements as early as 15, 000 years ago, a period called the Early Natufian, but a drying of the climate made them nomadic again between 12, 800 and 11, 500 years ago.

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