"We do not exactly know the sociological reason for reverence for the past; it may be rooted in tribal and famly solidarity or in the endeavour of the privileged classes to base their privileges on heredity. However that may be, the feeling that what is old must be better is still so strong that art historians and archaeologists do not shrink even from historical falsification when attempting to prove that the style of art which appeals to them most is also the oldest."
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Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, Volume I. From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages, 1999.
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