Friday's Blog 1/31/14

      Prehistory - The period before history was recorded through written documents.  "If we reduce the time since the first human-like species appeared (about 2.5 million years ago) to the period of a twenty-four-hour day, the five-thousand-year era of civilization takes up less than the last three minutes!"  Cave Paintings: These images of wild beasts were painted about 25,000 years ago deep in  a cave in southern France.  Nearer the entrance, people had their dwellings.  To judge from animal bones found in their garbage piles, they did not hunt these beasts; instead, perhaps they worshiped them.