'Greekize' as much as you like, Fea concluded; become a new Pausanias, Plutarch or Strabo.

This could be one of those things where we slap our foreheads and say, 'It seemed like a good idea at the time', he said.

Both these sites are also identified as belonging to the Yangshao culture, similar remains having first been discovered at Yangshao Village in Mianchi County, Henan Province.

In his autography, The Age of Turbulence, released by Penguin Press in September 2007—ironically, a few days before the second rate cut of the year—Greenspan says he thought it was wrong to increase scrutiny of subprime mortgages.