The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age Richard Rudgley
Publisher: Free Press

According to Richard Rudgley's book entitled Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age, the consumption of cannabis has been dated back to the third millennium BC. A British scholar challenges the conventional view of the Stone Age as minimally civilized, pointing out the many advances of its peoples, from their maps of the constellations to their innovations in boat building. This had a dramatic effect on modern human history, as it reintroduced science and the various intellectual disciplines surrounding it to Western civilizations. (1999) As We Know It: Coming to terms with the evolved mind. That explores the pyramid fields and ancient temples in Egypt as well as ancient megalithic sites around the world looking for clues to matriarchal consciousness, ancient knowledge and sophisticated technology in a Golden Age. There is some evidence to suggest that pieces of flint may have been used in the stone age as a form of currency. Recently British TV's Channel Four began a three part series called Barbarians, presented by Richard Rudgley, anthropologist and author of Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age. There archaeologists and ecologists from Arizona State University (ASU) are studying the age-old ruins and the ecosystem surrounding them. President Clinton created the monument in 2000, based largely on its 450 known prehistoric sites, which include an unusual assortment of multi-room houses made of mud and stone (known as pueblos) perched on a rocky mesa. Lost civilisations of the Stone Age.