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Lesson1 Finding fossil man Lesson3 Matterhorn man We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first Modern alpinists try to climb mountains by a route which will give them good sport, and the learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write. more difficult it is, the more highly it is regarded. In the pioneering days, however, this was The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas--legends handed not the case at all. The early climbers were looking for the easiest way to the top because the down from one generation of story-tellers to another. These legends are useful because they summit was the prize they sought, especially if it had never been attained before. It is true can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write that during their explorations they often faced difficulties and dangers of the most perilous down what they did. Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the nature, equipped in a manner which would make a modern climber shudder at the thought, Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from. The sagas of these people but they did not go out of their way to court such excitement. They had a single aim, a explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago. solitary goal--the top! But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they It is hard for us to realize nowadays how difficult it was for the pioneers. Except for one or had any, are forgotten. So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to two places such as Zermatt an