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…)