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Lesson 1 Finding fossil man Fossil: an animal or plant that lived many thousands of years ago and that has been preserved, or the shape of one of these animals or plants that has been preserved in rock Polished axeheads found at Seamers Moor in Yorkshire（约克郡---英格兰东北） Polish: to make something smooth, bright, and shiny by rubbing it Axe: a tool with a heavy metal blade on the end of a long handle, used to cut down trees or split pieces of wood Why are legends handed down by storytellers useful? Legend: an old, well-known story, often about brave people, adventures, or magical events [??myth] hand down: to give or leave something to people who will live after you Storyteller: someone who tells stories, especially to children storyteller We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where… read of: to find out information from books, newspapers etc The Ancient Near East: including the areas known today as Iraq(伊拉克）, Syria（叙利亚共和国）, Lebanon（黎巴嫩） and Palestine[p?listain] （巴勒斯坦） and Egypt（埃及） 近东：过去主要指欧洲的巴尔干半岛国家（原南斯拉夫、阿尔巴尼亚、希腊、保加利亚、和罗马尼亚）、亚洲的地中海沿岸国家（土耳其、叙利亚、黎巴嫩、巴勒斯坦、约旦）和东地中海岛国塞浦路斯，还包括北非的埃及和利比亚。第一次世界大战后，人们一般不再把巴尔干半岛国家称为近东国家，而列入“东南欧”或“南欧”的范围。 The only way that … is to recount it as sagas----legends handed down from one generation of storytellers to another. --- are useful because …migrations of people who… Anthropologists wondered … Preserve: to make something continue without changing Recount: to tell someone a story or describe a series of events Saga: a long story about events that happen over many years Generation: all people of about the same age Migration: when large numbers of people go to live in another area or country, especially in order to find work Anthropology: the scientific study of people, their societies, cultures etc [??ethnology, sociology] Wonder: to think about something that you are not sure about and try to guess what is true, what will happen etc ...where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now