Page 48 - A Historical Lie: The Stone Age
P. 48
A HISTORICAL LIE: THE STONE AGE
cludes, solely on the basis of this text, that the Chinese were a back-
ward race communicating by means of strange signs, will this be any
reflection of the true facts? Consider the example of Auguste Rodin's
statue "The Thinker," which is familiar to the whole world. Imagine
that this statue is re-discovered by archaeologists tens of thousands
from now. If those researchers hold their own preconceptions about
the beliefs and lifestyle of our society, and lack sufficient historical
documentation, they may well interpret this statue in different ways.
Archaeologists with an evolutionist prejudice assert that the bison sculptures in the Tuc
d'Audoubert cave in the foot-hills of the Pyrenees in southern France—which statues have no
less artistic value than today's works of art such as, for example, the statues of Rodin—were
made by so-called primitive people. But the technique and aesthetic appearance of the works
show that whoever produced them was no different physically or mentally from present-day
human beings, and was actually more artistically sophisticated than most.
46
