Hunter, Prey and the Scavenger
Abstract:Everybody has seen images of primitive people, wrapping themselves up in animal skins, with a simple club in hand, fighting various kinds of animals, sometimes even dinosaurs which never even existed in their time. It seems that our ancestors, since the early periods of history, possessed the wisdom and courage to survive in wild lands and e the greatest hunters in the natural world. Actually, during the Period of the PlioPleistocene, our ancestors were not necessarily hunters. On the contrary, they might have been the prey of other carnivores, or perhaps, they were just like the African hyena, or a vulture that lives on the rotten meat just like other animals.
With their beautiful writing style and scientific vision, the prize winning science writer, Roger Lewin, and Professor Robert A. Foley of Cambridge University together published a book called Principles of Human Evolution in which they gave a perfect picture of the lonely journey of early human beings to modern culture. They gave an example of how the archeological documents should be interpreted. At the same time
, through rigorous academic plishments and debate, using the style of a detective, they gave a remarkable image of development and showed the readers how our hominid ancestors maintained their livelihood and social activities.
There are still many debates among a
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