L1Finding fossil manWecanreadof thingsthathappened5,000yearsago in theNearEast,wherepeoplefirstlearnedto write.Buttherearesome partsof theworldwhereevennowpeoplecannotwrite.Theonlywaythattheycanpreservetheirhistoryis to recountitassagas----legendshandeddownfromone generationof storytellersto another.Theselegendsareusefulbecausetheycantell ussomethingaboutmigrationsofpeoplewholivedlong ago,butnonecouldwritedownwhattheydid.Anthropologistswonderedwheretheremoteancestorsof thePolynesianpeoplesnowlivingin thePacificIslandscamefrom.Thesagasof thesepeopleexplainthatsome of themcamefromIndonesiaabout2,000yearsago.Butthefirstpeoplewhowerelikeourselveslivedso long ago thateventheirsagas,if theyhadany,areforgotten.So archaeologistshaveneitherhistorynorlegendsto helpthemto findoutwherethefirst'modernmen'camefrom.Fortunately,however,ancientmenmadetools of stone,especiallyflint,becausethisis easierto shapethanotherkinds.Theymayalso haveusedwoodandskins,butthesehaverottedaway.Stonedoes notdecay,andso thetools of long ago haveremainedwheneventhebonesof themenwhomadethemhavedisappearedwithouttrace.Newwordsandexpressionsrecount/ri'kaunt/v.叙述/'rei'kaunt/再数一次record/'rek[d//ri'kC:d/第一个音节带重音，名前动后叙述：recount: emotionless重复describedepict： a littleemotionalnarrate： temporal&spacial根据时间或空间顺序描述。portray：描述saga /'sa:g[/n.英雄故事描述的内容 mostlyreal 北欧海盗活动的故事legend/'ledV[nd/n.传说，传奇unreale.grobinhoodanthropologist/'AnWr['pCl[dVist/n.人类学家anthrop：人philosophere:philo＋sopher|爱＋智慧＝哲学家philanthropist:慈善家（对人有爱心的人）anthropology:人类学带-gy结尾的都是学科：biology生物学geography地理学ecology生态学remote/ri'm[ut/n.遥远ancestor/'Ansest[/n.祖先an-在前面forefather,forebear，predecessor祖先rot/rCt/v.烂掉leaveme rot.＝leaveme alongrotto death.soon ripe,soonrotten.decay国家民族逐渐衰亡 decompose逐渐衰竭 deteriorate关系逐渐恶化trace/treis/n.痕迹，踪迹tracetheproblemi followyourtr...
