La Préhistoire. Vérités et légendes. Photographie Excerpt from ASAE 8

Excerpt from ASAE 8

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Volume V: Literarische Texte des Mittleren Reiches II: Die Erzählung des Sinuhe und die Hirtengeschichte

Cretan Studies XX

presents the results of the excavation of an Egyptian elite cemetery of the New Kingdom

La Préhistoire. Vérités et légendes. Photographie Excerpt from ASAE 8Thanks to advances in science (archaeology, DNA, etc.), fantasies are no longer appropriate when discussing prehistory. The daily lives, beliefs, diet, sexuality, and funeral rites of our ancestors hold virtually no secrets. Our view of our distant ancestors is changing. Gone are the days of the shaggy beast growling from the depths of a cave. Scientific breakthroughs have put an end to this caricature: instead, they reveal a plural, sensitive,