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... thousand years : tool- making perhaps farther . Whatever man's ancestral deficiencies , he was at least well - seasoned . Many animals found these conditions difficult . Some surmounted them by acquiring heavy coverings of wool , like ...
... thousand years : tool- making perhaps farther . Whatever man's ancestral deficiencies , he was at least well - seasoned . Many animals found these conditions difficult . Some surmounted them by acquiring heavy coverings of wool , like ...
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... thousand or more years ago , cannot be accused of making headlong advances . But around thirty thousand years ago the time - scale changes . Though new finds may shift these provisional datings , one definable culture follows another at ...
... thousand or more years ago , cannot be accused of making headlong advances . But around thirty thousand years ago the time - scale changes . Though new finds may shift these provisional datings , one definable culture follows another at ...
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... thousand and fifteen thousand years ago , paleolithic man invented and perfected the bow - and - arrow . This turns out to be the first real machine . Up to this point , tools and weapons had been mere extensions of the human body ...
... thousand and fifteen thousand years ago , paleolithic man invented and perfected the bow - and - arrow . This turns out to be the first real machine . Up to this point , tools and weapons had been mere extensions of the human body ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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