Brixham Cave and the origins of "prehistory"
 

Graeber / Wengrow 79: "The term 'prehistory' only came into common use after the discoveries at Brixham Cave in Devon in 1858, when stone axes, which could only have been fashioned by humans, were found alongside remains of cave bear, wooly rhinoceros and other extinct species, all together under a sealed casing of rock."
> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #prehistory, #timeline

> created January 6, 2022 at 2:25:39 PM


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