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Bison of Altamira (Cantabria). National Museum and Research Centre of Altamira

Bison of Altamira (Cantabria). National Museum and Research Centre of Altamira.

The prehistory of humankind is as distant to us as our time shall be to future civilizations. And yet we do not think of ourselves as a primitive people but ignorantly look down on our ancestors of generations past and boast of great improvements to their comparative primitiveness. As an ethnographer, I have nonetheless the general impression that such an approach is far from flawless, and thus prefer to talk about change rather than progress, just as Barandiaran did. (more…)