I was disapointed to read that..

I was disappointed to learn that history courses and history books often neglect the long phase of the Paleolithic era—instead history books “choose to begin the story with the early civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, and elsewhere.” (Ways of the World, 12) It is disappointing to me that important information about our past is neglected. There is a lot to learn from our world, our past, and how we have evolved over millions of years. Even though, “written records are absent, scholars have learned a great deal about Paleolithic and Neolithic peoples through their remains: stones, and bones, fossilized seeds, rock paintings and engravings, and much more.” (Ways of the World, 12) It is amazing to me that we are learning so much about our past through archeologists, biologists, botanists, demographers, linguists, and anthropologists, yet, not pay much attention to it—quite disappointing if you ask me. “Furthermore, the achievements of Paleolithic peoples—the initial settlement of the planet, the creation of the earliest human societies, the beginnings of reflection of the great question of life and death—surely deserve our attention.” (Ways of the World, 12)