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Trapped in Ice: The Paleolithic World

Tides of History

CHAPTER

The Last Rays of Daylight Fall Onto a Limestone Wall

i want to take you back in time some 25 thousand years. The last rays of daylight fall onto a sheer limestone wall dotted here and there with brush and stunted trees. A line of people walks along a ledge the well worn path leading to the entrance, carrying torches in their hands. Htorches cast flickering light on a stunning variety of images. Stencilled red hand prints, vaguely female figures carved directly into the line stone. And animals of all shapes and sizes, horse, bison, lion, all loom above them.

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