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Back
& forwards
to the past of
our future
...

These
earliest known
men and women
hunted the open steppes of Europe for some hundreds of centuries perhaps,
and then slowly drifted and changed
before a change of climate.
Europe,
century by century,
was growing milder and
damper.
Reindeer receded
northward and eastward,
and bison and horse
followed.
The steppes gave way to forests,
and red deer took the place of horse and bison.
There is a change in the character of the implements with this change
in their application?

River and lake fishing
becomes of great importance to men and women,
and fine implements of bone
increased.

The bone needles of this age
are much superior tot those of later,
even historical times,
down to the Renaissance.
The Romans, for example,
never had needles comparable to those of this
epoch?

Almost
fifteen or twelve thousand years ago {?}
a fresh people drifted into the south of Spain,
and left very remarkable myDi-drawings of themselves
upon exposed rock faces there.
These were the "Azilians" {named from
the Mas d'Azil cave}.

THEY
had the bow;
they seem to have worn feather headdresses;
they drew vividly;
but also they had reduced their drawings to a sort of symbolism -
a man, for instance,
would be represented by a vertical dab
with two or three horizontal dabs -
that suggests the dawn of
the myDi-writing
idea?




Against
hunting sketches
there are often marks like tallies.
One drawing shows two men
smoking out a bees'
nest ...

THESE
are the latest of the men that we call
Palaeolithic {Old Stone Age}
becuase they had only chipped implements.
By ten or twelve thousand years ago
A NEW SORT of life has dawned in Europe,
men have learned not only to chip
but to polish and grind stone implements,
AND
they have begun
cultivation?!

The Neolithic
{New Stone Age} was
beginning ...

It is
interesting to note
that less than a century ago
there still survived in a remote part of the world,
in Tasmania,
a race of human beings
at a 'lower' level
of physical and intellectual development
than any of these earliest races of mankind,
who have left traces
in Europe?

These Tasmanian people
had long ago been cut off by geographical changes
from the rest of the world's species,
AND
from stimulation and
improvement!

THEY
seem to have degenerated rather than
developed
........

At the time
of their discovery
by European explorers,
they lived a base life
subsisting
upon
shellfish
and
small
game
...

They had no habitations
but only squatting places
...

They
were real
men of our species,
but they had neither
the manual dexterity nor
the artistic powers of
the first true
men
...

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