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Inside the prehistoric mind

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Did Prehistoric People Appreciate a Good View?

A prehistoric people would have regarded the landscape in a very, very different way to the way we do. For example, distant hills and that sort of thing wouldn't just be seen as beautiful range of hills in a distance. That would have been the edges of the realm of the ancestors. And some sites are liminal, there on the boundary between e world of be ancestors and ours. They were very special places. People make offerings, thousands of spears, daggers, shields, all sorts of things were carefully placed in the water. But you look at water and you can see your own reflection. So it's a mirror soul. A so a view to a prehistoric person would mean far

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