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Nature 413, 567-568 (11 October 2001) | doi:10.1038/35098127
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Echoes from the dreamtime
Robert L. Bettinger1
Ten thousand years ago, as the last ice age ended, the world was the exclusive domain of full-time hunter–gatherers — people who fed, clothed and sheltered themselves entirely with the fruits, seeds, meat, fibres and skins obtained by fishing, hunting and gathering wild plants. They are all gone now, but the handful who managed to hang on into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries figured prominently in the development of a modern anthropology whose goal of understanding all humankind demanded that special attention be given to these peoples, so profoundly out of step with civilization.
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