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...human prehistory, the Cro-Magnon people who drew the profusion of animals on the bulging limestone walls of the Chauvet cave were fairly late arrivals. Human technology-the making of tools from stone-had already been in existence for nearly 2 million years. There are traces of symbolism and ritual in burial sites of Neanderthals, an earlier species, dating back to 100,000 B.P. (before the present). Not only did the placement of the bodies seem meaningful, but so did the surrounding pebbles and bones with fragmentary patterns scratched on them. These, says Clottes, "do indicate that the Neanderthals...
Some animals have more than four legs, or grotesquely exaggerated horns; is that just style, or does it argue a state of ritual trance or hallucination in the artists? No answer, though some naturally occurring manganese oxides, the base of some of the blacks used in cave paintings, are known to be toxic and to act on the central nervous system. And the main technique of Cro-Magnon art, according to prehistorian Michel Lorblanchet, director of France's National Center of Scientific Research, involved not brushes but a kind of oral spray-painting-blowing pigment dissolved in saliva...
When first-year Nina W. Kang realised she would be leaving Taiwan to attend Harvard, it seemed she would have to abandon her dinnertime ritual of sharing the day's events with her family. Calling home, Kang says, is an expensive affair...
Registration will take place at the houses and the Freshman Union this spring because of construction at Memorial Hall, the usual site for the semesterly ritual...
...North Bath. Located in upstate New York, it is the kind of small town where a dispute, if it escalates, can lead to the stealing of a snowblower by a disgruntled employee. When the owner of the brand new Toro tracks it down, he'll steal it back. This ritual can go on for days...