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This is a lavishly illustrated volume that combines myth with historical background, and it's written with long, lyrical, almost unbelievably fact-packed sentences. After an enormously detailed history of early humanity, Campbell focuses quite intensively on a handful of the world's oldest hunter-gathering cultures -- the rock painting artists of Paleolithic Europe, the Sahara, and southern Africa, the Kung Bushmen, the Central African forest Pygmies, the Tasaday of the Philippines, and the Adaman Islanders.
