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L' Art des Cavernes en Pays‐Basque: Les Grottes d'Ekain et Altxerri. Jesus Altuna. Paris: Seuil Publishers, 1996.200 pp.Journey through the Ice Age. Paul G. Bahn and Jean Vertut. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.240 pp.L'Art des Origines au Yemen. Michel‐Alain Garcia and Madiha Rachad. Paris: Seuil Publishers, 1997.99 pp.

"Race matters. Historically, economically, and culturally, race matters a lot. In the United States, for example, a straight and uninterrupted line of distress can be drawn between slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the mass incarcerations of African Americans in the twenty-first. A similar line connects the early nineteenth-century miseries of the "Trail of Tears" (a series of horrendously long forced marches in which members of various southeastern indigenous American tribes were made to relocate to unfamiliar new western territories, at least a quarter of them dying of disease and exhaustion along the way) to the conditions of deep deprivation that prevail on many Native American reservations today. These important historical factors cannot be ignored; and without accommodating them we cannot explain, or understand, or even begin to improve the deeply flawed social world we live in. And there is equally no doubt that those historical and current travesties are inextricably intertwined with notions of race"--

Wallace and Darwin, the Museum Mice from the Halls of the American Museum of Natural History, are off on another adventure! It's amazing what you can find in a museum and how far you can travel in a small time machine made from a yoghurt cup! Have you ever wondered where we humans all came from and how there came to be so many of us? The answers, as our two mice will show you, lie everywhere including in our own DNA. So there is the Big Picture of The Great Human Journey from the middle of Africa to Australia, America and Asia and then there's the Tiny (really tiny) Picture too of molecules an