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The book opens with a review of Ethiopian prehistory, showing how the Ethiopian section of the African Rift Valley has come to be seen as the "cradle of humanit

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LC copy signed by author: "To: Tom Kane -- good friend and always helpful critic who has contributed a good deal to this book -- Paul B. Henze 29 August 2000."