Word: culturale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anthropologists no longer look for a definite single place where the human race first appeared on earth. They know that man's ancestors were numerous, varied and widely distributed before they were fully human. But they still seek the "cultural Garden of Eden": the region where man first discovered...
The announcement from Iraq fitted anthropological theory. The search for the cultural Eden, where the transition to agriculture actually took place, has long since narrowed down to the highland south of the Caucasus Mountains. On its fringes are ruins of settled villages already old when Egypt and Chaldea were peopled...
So far, the inter-lake triangle has not been fully explored, but anthropologists are eager to give it a thorough going-over. In its little valleys they hope to find proof that here the first farmers tilled the soil, and that from here their revolutionary mode of life spread by...
The editors have issued a policy statement to the effect that" 'Foreground' has no political or sectional bias but is dedicated to an expression and examination of the cultural foreground." The magazine will contain fiction, poetry, and literary criticism written by both known and new writers, American and foreign. Special...
Prague, abustle with material reconstruction and cultural renaissance, was a mirror of the nation. Life was still conditioned by shortages-in everything from bread to books. But Prague, like most of the country, had escaped with relatively light war damage. It was heady with vitality.