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Cave men are usually depicted as hairy, stupid creature who don't do much, but anthropological studies of contemporary primitive tribes suggest that stone age people were probably bound by ritual all day long. There's a ritual for washing, for putting up a house, for hunting, for eating and so on - so much so that the division between "ritual and knowledge becomes indistinct. In cultures without books ritual seems to be a public library for teaching the young and preserving common values and information

⁠— Robert Pirsig