We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East,where people first learned to write.But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write.(1)_______________________.These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago,but none could write down what they did.Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from.The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago.
(2)_______________________.So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first 'modern men' came from.
Fortunately,however,ancient men made tools of stone,especially flint,because this is easier to shape than other kinds.They may also have used wood and skills,but these have rotted away.(3)_______________________.
1、The only way they preserve their histry historyrecorded as sagas ,Lengens had done from one generation of story tales to another.
2、But the first ,people who are liked ourselfs lived so long ago their even sagas ,if they had nee are forgoten.
3、Stone doesn't the cai anciener the too long ago have return when even the bonds the man who made has disappeared without trace roven place ,finding forsoman.