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“In Brussels between 1909 and 1914, Louis Mascré sculpted away for Belgium’s Royal Academy of Science, creating a plaster cranium, a mother and child, the upper body of an elder. At a time when Belgium was brutalizing the Congo, the country’s Royal Academy compared Africans to apes and also depicted Neanderthals as simian rather than caveman-like.”

Belgium Brussels Prehistory Belgium Congo Louis Mascré Royal Academy Of Science

Book:The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

Source: The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

“The novelist Evelyn Waugh noticed at the time that Evans and his collaborators blended contemporary styles into antique ones: they had “tempered their zeal for accurate reconstruction with a somewhat inappropriate predilection for covers of Vogue.”

Prehistory Evelyn Waugh Evans

Book:The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

Source: The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

“There’s the cooking-made-humanity theory, popularized by (among others) Yuval Noah Harari’s deceptive hodgepodge Sapiens.”

Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari

Book:The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

Source: The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins