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Matt Hafer
Art 101
01/21/2017
Essay 1
Should Ancient Artifacts be Repatriated?
Modern man in a truly magnificent creature. He has many abilities that no other living
organism on the planet possesses. Not to impugn upon opposable thumbs, but modern Man’s
greatest ability is probably the fact that he possesses the mental prowess to express himself, as
well as the physical ability to construct and create advanced structures. This ability can be traced
all the way back to some 30,000 plus years ago, when Paleolithic Humans were just learning to
paint their surroundings on limestone surfaces.
