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Beginning of history

United Kingdom, 1946
film

By using the remains of things made and built by prehistoric man to reconstruct a prehistoric dwelling, this film ambitiously attempts to tell the story of wh..

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The Story of prehistoric man

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Exploring the unwritten past

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The New stone age

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Time, lines and events. - [Revised]

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Man the builder

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Primary sources: the raw material of history

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Houses in history

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The Old Stone Age

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Development of the English town

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Palaeolithic man

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Our inheritance from the past

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Before we ruled the earth

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Prehistoric times. - Rev. ed.

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Prehistoric times the world before man

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