article_snippet: All the interpretations to date could be mistaken.
article_snippet: In early times, no spiritual ceremonies would have been performed on the ground,' said Mr Spalding.
article_snippet: That would have been unimaginably insulting to the immortal beings, for it would have brought the immortal beings down from heaven to bite the dust and tread in the dung.'
article_snippet: This depiction does not take the new wooden platform theory into account .
article_snippet: The great mystery of early man was that we all thought the world was flat.
article_snippet: There is a possibility, of course.
article_snippet: Mr Spalding went in there and looked on the ground - because Mr Spalding assumed all the evidence for early man would be on the ground,' Mr Spalding said. '