Can one trace this same pattern far back in prehistory?

我们能把同样的这种模式追溯到遥远的史前吗？

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Occasionally one can determine whether stone tools were used in the right hand or the left, and it is even possible to assess how far back this feature can be traced.

偶尔，人们可以确定石器是用在右手还是左手上，甚至可以评估这种特征可以追溯到多远以前。

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The band made their first record as far back as 1990.

这个乐队早在 1990 年就录制了他们的第一张唱片。

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Historically, money lenders of one sort or another go back -who knows how far back -thousands of years.

从历史上讲,放债人的存在可以追溯到,谁知道多久以前,数千年前吧

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John Kennedy is also very good ? I'm not going back that far. -Well?

约翰·肯尼迪做得也不错啊,扯那么远干嘛，-不行吗？

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England embarrassingly appealed for offside, but Wayne Bridge and, ludicrously, Shaun Wright-Phillips - who should not have been that far back - were both clearly playing him on.

BBC: England 2-3 Croatia

Anadarko Petroleum was part owner of the blown-out Macondo well, and on Friday it reiterated its position to BP--expressed as far back as June 18--that BP is responsible for the disaster and that it will withhold any reimbursement.

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The Wales Office insists that flying Mr Jones back to London - and then back out to the Far East - didn't cost the taxpayer a penny.

BBC: Wales Office's ?43,649 trade mission flights bill