| Abstract | East Asia may have won grudging Western acceptance of its present and future economic potential, but East/West divisions over the region's distant past are wider than ever. While respected authropologists quarrel over exactly where mankind orginated, rival archaeologists are divided into two camps over studies on brith of human civilisation. As the author reports from London, the stakes are high. If outspoken Western scholars are right, Asia has imported its people and perhaps even its culture from elsewhere; if that are wrong, China may yet prove to be Earth's Garden of Eden. |
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