Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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Humans living at the end of the last ice age conjure images of cavemen with primitive stone tools and a language of nothing but grunts and grumbles. This may have been the way prehistoric man is portrayed in stories and films, but...
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