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Inside the prehistoric mind

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Are You Using Your Imagination to Understand Human Culture?

Wen: If you're going to understand human culture, as james joyce knew only too well, you must use your imagination. The best evidence is the citing of bronze edge burial mounds which are often on along the line of the top of a hill. At stonehenge has got barrows all round the great stones, but separated well back from it,. most of them. It's the positioning of these sites. Everything is never just at random. And that's why i think mad a had structure to their view of the past. But one of the great things about archaeology is tat freez you up to use your imaginations.

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