2019 Margaret Mead Film Festival Trailer

Watch "Pre-Crime" at the Margaret Mead Film Festival

A commonly shared story, of the anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she thought was the earliest sign of a civilized society. To the student’s surprise, Mead replied that the first sign of civilization is a healed human femur—the long bone that connects the hip to the knee. Mead proceeded to explain, as the story goes, that wounded animals in the wild would be hunted and eaten before their broken bones could heal. Thus, a healed femur is a sign that a wounded person must hav

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