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      |    |  ,         '-_, ,; ~ ~\                       |reached~\
      \    / /|             ,-, ,   -,                      \, here /
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        ~                  -~~-, /   _                      / yrs|
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Their culture worldwide included fire, bow and arrow,       ',|  ~
fishnets, baskets, tame dogs, burial of dead, and *speech*.   ~'
Details like politics and religion had thousands of variations
that their simple vocabulary was incapable of articulating precisely.
Land belonged to the tribe that defended it.  Ancestor worship was also
universal.  There may have been marco-polo-type individuals who travelled
thousands of miles on foot.