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Late Ice Age Hunter-Gatherers

on during hunting forays - a large portion of the indicators of these hunter-gatherers' lives did not survive their lifetimes, let along the ravages of centuries. Researchers admit to reconstructing Paleolithic lifestyles via a combination of remains found in caves juxtaposed over clinical (and some not-so-clinical) observations of "Stone Age" cultures extant in the 19th and 20th Centuries. It is a perilous practice vis-a-vis veracity; one cites the admission by certain members of primitive New Guinean tribes that they had lied to famed cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead during her landmark study of their culture in the 1920s - the modern interpreter's conclusions about prehistoric cultures encircles a minefield of such potentially-false data inputs (Marshack, 1972, pp. 57 - 79).

Contemporary research on the life modes of the late Ice Age, particularly in terms of symbol and communication, centers largely around examples discovered in caves where the hunter-gatherers dwelled only part-time. It is an admittedly incomplete picture of late Paleolithic life. The advantage of this method of interpretation, however, is that it does not rely so heavily upon comparing the ancient primitive culture to the contemporary: it works primarily from the hard facts of the data available. To that end, in terms of sheer numbers, it is obvious that the hunter-gatherers of the late Ice Age h

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