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. No scientist, the historian will call to his cause what the scientist has since discarded. Speculative prehistory lays the slab on which a whole structure of man s development story gets built, block by block. By enormously inflating the scape of prehistory, the historian can have the basis for the rise of civilization. An alloy of evolution concepts now describes mankind s descent from primitive forms.