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Tony Harrison

Tony Harrison is a renowned British poet known for his unique poetic style and profound insights into social issues. His works often explore themes of class, race, and identity, earning him acclaim from readers and critics alike. more

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“After the first Neanderthal skeletal remains were identified in Europe in the nineteenth century it was, for a very long while, one of the fundamental unquestioned assumptions of archaeology, a matter taken to be self-evidently true, that other "older," "less-evolved" human species never attained, or even in their wildest dreams could hope to aspire, to the same levels of cultural development as Homo sapiens. During more than a century of subsequent analysis, and despite multiple additional discoveries, the Neanderthals continued to be depicted as nothing more than brutal, shambling, stupid subhumans--literally morons by comparison with ourselves. Since the beginning of the second decade of the twenty-first century, however, and with increasing certainty as the evidence has become overwhelming, a new "image" of the Neanderthals as sensitive, intelligent, symbolic, and creative beings capable of advanced thought processes and technological innovations has taken root among archaeologists and is set to become the ruling paradigm.”

“At locations scattered all across North America from Alaska to New Mexico and from Florida to the state of Washington, more than 1,500 Clovis sites have been found. These sites have yielded more than 10,000 Clovis points and tens of thousands of other artifacts from the Clovis toolkit (40,000 at Topper alone [...]). yet among all these archaeological riches, it bears repeating that the sum total of Clovis human remains found in 85 years of excavations is limited to the Anzick-1 partial skeleton.”

“Skeletal Remains Found Deep in the jungles of America, I find skeletal remains of bodies strewn about some bowed in the pretense of what was and others with lifted arms as if department store mannequins posed to look lifelike drawing in others towards this lifeless worship called the church no breath of the spirit can be found for skeletal prayer has left behind bodies decomposing among all the skeletal remains of a godless church”