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Listening to the Past

How can we communicate, and commune, with our ancestors whose lives and cultures are long lost to time and geography? And what can we learn from the way they survived, and thrived, as communities? At a moment when the Earth and its peoples are facing fiery catastrophes brought on by the climate crisis, mass extinctions of different species, and waves of displacement, the contemporary world is endeavoring to unlock knowledge of our past more than ever before.

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