Ancestral Faces

Ancestral Faces

Music and lyrics © 2010, Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick
Recording © 2010, The Stone Age Institute®. All rights reserved.

1.

Ardipithecus, part human, part ape
Prehensile toe and a simian gape
Hips adapted to trees and to land
With very long arms and with very long hands

2.

Australopithecus made footprints in ash
At Gona made tools with percussion and flash
Ate berries and fruits and occasional prey
They walked on two legs through the African day

(Chorus)
Ancestral faces
Ancestral days
Ancestral traces
Ancestral ways

3.

Homo habilis had much bigger brains
With Oldowan tools they made much bigger gains
Cut-marks on bones, which they broke with stone hammers
Ate marrow and meat in a carnivore manner

4.

Homo erectus, handaxe in hand
Spread to Eurasia, to many new lands
With braincase two-thirds of the size of our kind
Had primitive language and primitive mind

(Chorus)
Ancestral faces
Ancestral days
Ancestral traces
Ancestral ways

5.

Heidelbergensis, bigger brains, better ways
Made spears out of wood for their hunting forays
Soft hammer blows, handaxes they fashioned
Aesthetic concern and symmetrical passion

6.

Neandertal people they buried their dead
With fire and flake-tools in Ice Ages bred
Then came modern humans with symbols and blades
Now artists, inventors, a new path was laid

(Chorus)
Ancestral faces
Ancestral days
Ancestral traces
Ancestral ways . . .

“With the Ancestors” CD cover.
© 2011, THE STONE AGE INSTITUTE®

Vocals: Carrie Newcomer

Lead guitar: Seymour Duncan

Guitar: Sage Benado

Guitar: Nicholas Toth

Bass guitar: Henry Corning

Drums & percussion: Tom Schoenemann

Percussion: Kathy Schick

Engineer: Kevin Loyal
Recorded at Echo Park Studios,
Bloomington, Indiana
Recording © 2010 Nicholas Toth & Kathy Schick,
THE STONE AGE INSTITUTE®
All rights reserved.

“Ancestral Faces” CD.
© 2011, THE STONE AGE INSTITUTE®