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Most of them left hands, showing that the Aurignacians tended to be right-handed, like ourselves, and dusted on the paint, black manganese or red ochre, between the outspread fingers in just way that we, too, would find convenient.
Like the Australians, again, and other rude peoples, these Aurignacians would appear to have been given to lopping off an occasional finger from some religious motive, we may guess to judge from the mutilated look of a good many of the handprints. The use of paint is here limited to this class of wall-decoration.
That idea-process, this Anti-Fate is Science. Science began with the adventures of free-thinking speculators, who revolted against religious cosmogonies and superstitions. Sceptics concerning the knowledge that was the accepted monopoly of the priesthood must have existed in the oldest civilization we know anything of, more than twenty-five thousand years ago, the Aurignacians.
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