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Civilization And Early Cultures, An Analogy

Early civilizations are credited with introducing government, art, and religion, among

other things to the modern world. Does the credit actually belong to the people who created these

early civilizations or to those that came before? The final product may be considered greater and

certainly more polished than the product created by early man. All things found in an ancient

civilization were actually brought to them by the collective memories of the people that came

before.

Little is known about human life during the Paleolithic Period, 35,000 to 10,000 BC. Cave

paintings and a few clay statuettes are the sum total of what has survived the years for modern

archeologists to study. (Arts and Culture, An Introduction to the Humanities, p. 14,15 ) Anything

made of wood or bone has long since turned to dust. ( Everyday Life Through The Ages, p 13 )

Burial sites that have been discovered recently allow us to peek into the remote past. These

discoveries support the idea of an awareness of and homage paid

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