THE GOLDEN ROOMS—Vardis Fisher—Vanguard ($2.50). The golden rooms were the firelit caves of men in the vast darkness of prehistoric night. When Harg discovered that by rubbing two sticks together he ...

In 1941, a human skull was unearthed during mining in Romanian cave, along with stone tools and cave bear fossils. The 33,000-year-old discovery became one of the earliest dated and well-preserved ...

CALIFORNIA, after having been a potent factor in the history of modern times, seems likely to contribute in a very positive manner to our knowledge of the earliest history of mankind. An object of ...

The archaeologist: what he studies and what he does -- The archaeologist's methods and tools -- Lower Paleolithic man: tools and cultures -- Upper Paleolithic man and his descendants: the birth of art ...

The construction machinery chewed away at the hill in Nice, digging out the foundation for a new luxury apartmentbuilding. Suddenly one of the sidewalk superintendents erupted with excitement. “Stop!” ...

The term prehistory is generally used to refer to the time in human history when the ancestors of modern man were using stone tools, but writing systems had yet to be invented. With some research ...

For a long time, we were fed 19th-century propaganda on the subject of prehistoric man. They were seen almost as violent, barbaric animals. It was a way of looking down on the humans of the time, like ...

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