Yes,you can see horns." These 500 to 1000-year-old cave paintings are young compared to the skeleton of Ardi, an upright hominid more than four million years old discovered in Ethiopia's Great Rift Valley .
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Supported by the Marshall Plan, the new Deutschmark superseded dubious oldpaintings, and even American cigarettes, as the medium of exchange.
Now, it's a living relic, with a handful of clubby, wood-paneled rooms decked out in historic paraphernalia, framed oldpaintings, photographs and menus.
What the neighborhood lacked in luxuries it made up for in junk shops, where broken oldpaintings of no artistic merit could be bought for mere shillings.