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The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
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The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.
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I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.
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To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.
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South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.
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The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
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Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.
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There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
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Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.
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We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.
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I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!
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The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.
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I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.
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Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.
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