下载后可任意编辑新概念英语第四册课堂笔记新概念英语第四册课堂笔记 新概念英语第四册课堂笔记 1 fossil man (化石人) Why are legends handed down by storytellers useful
We can 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 cannot write
The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas -- legends handed down from one generation of story tellers to another
These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did
Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from
The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000
