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  • To Ryan they might as well have been neolithic cave paintings.†  (source)
  • The security and shelter suggested by some Neolithic memory of caves probably won't work here, but something along the lines of Plato's cave interior may: perhaps this cave experience has something to do with Adela getting in touch with the deepest levels of her consciousness and perhaps being frightened by what she finds there.†  (source)
  • Since that neolithic moment when first a horse was haltered, there were those among men who understood this.†  (source)
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  • Animal fibers were not employed until the Neolithic period, by cultures that—unlike their nomadic ancestors—were able to establish stable communities near which sheep could graze, and in which looms could be constructed.†  (source)
  • The peculiar pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and been replaced by something quite different.†  (source)
  • "In the Neolithic," Randy said, "a boy either grows up fast or he doesn't grow up at all."†  (source)
  • Neolithic man—no date.†  (source)
  • His imagination runs through history, digging its way down into the past to unlock clues to political and historical difficulties, in much the same way the turf-cutters carve their way downward through progressively older layers of peat, where they sometimes come upon messages from the past—skeletons of the extinct giant Irish elk, rounds of cheese or butter, Neolithic quern stones, two-thousand-year-old bodies.†  (source)
  • Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low.†  (source)
  • North American civilization's return to the Neolithic Age.†  (source)
  • If he would confine his energies to this all would be well, but there are rumours that he intends to prosecute Dr. Mortimer for opening a grave without the consent of the next-of-kin, because he dug up the Neolithic skull in the barrow on Long Down.†  (source)
  • Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low.†  (source)
  • Some blankets rolled in a waterproof lay upon that very stone slab upon which Neolithic man had once slumbered.†  (source)
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