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On these mountains of
the Garoka region in New Guinea,
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lies the border between
history and prehistory.
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Here we found the last cave man,
still armed with a club.
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He doesn't even know metal,
he lives in the unreachable
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caves of the mountain with
his women and children,
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he's as wild and suspicious
as a beast.
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We don't know how
he'd react if he spotted
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our camera pointed at him.
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Rather than by a camera,
these images seem to be
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caught by a huge telescope
pointed into time.
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They could be the shadow,
the photographic memory
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of the stone age.
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This day, this moment,
goes back 4 or 5 thousand years.
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Nothing particular is happening.
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Now as in the past,
life goes on under the eternal
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guide of their instinct
for work, leisure, children,
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food, human contact
and an orderly social life.