The last hundred years have witnessed a flowering of archaeology as a scientific field. Anthropologists have welcomed the seemingly definitive findings and their interpretations. Treasured artifacts from archaeology get arranged and interpreted by Darwinian concepts. It s the ware of the humanist anthropologist to convince us things are so by the natural selection of a species on the ascent. This, then, is great opportunity for the humanist anthropologist to develop his beliefs.
Anthropologists invest great intellectual sums to invest early man with animal traits.
Rather than anthropomorphize what beasts do, they bestialize man to justify what he does. It s been said that if we don t learn from history we re condemned to live it again. Even if we do learn from history, we only learn how to live it again. Historians use documents to create pictures of their re- constructions of the past. Although modern science has fostered the development of more precise methods, much of our understanding of early humans relies upon considerable conjecture.