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In a study of prehistoric material culture, archaeologist Linda Hurcombe shows how everything we know about that historical period is determined by traces that have been handed down to us. However, Hurcombe urges us not to forget the theoretical and technological knowledge associated with organic materials that has not stood the test of time because it is perishable or has been handed down orally. She calls them the ‘missing majority’, i.e. a system of knowledge related to nature that has been forgotten by so-called high-brow culture, but that is closely related to the ideas, identities and …