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Paleolithic
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As has often been said: beliefs and ideas cannot be fossilized. Hence certain scholars have preferred to say nothing about the ideas and beliefs of the Paleanthropians, instead of reconstructing them by the help of comparisons with the hunting civilizations. This radical methodological position is not without its dangers. To leave an immense part of the history of the human mind a blank runs the risk of encouraging the idea that during all those millennia the activity of the mind was confined to
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― A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
― A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
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So not only was this curious bracelet [found at the Denisova cave] unequivocally the work of anatomically archaic human beings--the Denisovans-- but also it testified to their mastery of advanced manufacturing techniques in the Upper Paleolithic, many millennia ahead of the earliest use of these techniques in the Neolithic by our own supposedly "advanced" species, Homo sapiens. Also made crystal clear was the realization that the Denisovans must have possessed the same kinds of artistic sensibil
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― America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
― America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
