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Lesson 1 Finding fossil man Lesson 1 Finding fossil man 发现化石人 发现化石人 We an read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. We an read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where even now people annot write. The only way that they an preserve their But there are some parts of the world where even now people annot write. The only way that they an preserve their history is to re ount it as sagaslegends handed down from one generation of storytellers to another. These legends history is to re ount it as sagaslegends handed down from one generation of storytellers to another. These legends are useful be ause they an tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none ould write are useful be ause they an tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none ould write down what they did. Anthropologists wondered where the remote an estors of the Polynesian peoples now living in down what they did. Anthropologists wondered where the remote an estors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pa ifi Islands ame from. The sagas of these people explain that some of them ame from Indonesia about 2,000 the Pa ifi Islands ame from. The sagas of these people explain that some of them ame from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago. years ago. But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they had any, are forgotten. S But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they had any, are forgotten.