Despite Christopher Hitchens’s dismissive view that “nobody,” during the period of human pre-history, “had the smallest idea what was going on,” we continue to be fascinated with mankind before the written record began. Exploring ways the deep past influences modern thought, a new exhibition sets prehistoric objects alongside works by 20th-century artists Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Raoul Ubac, Joan Miró, Louise Bourgeois, and more. —J.V.