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... early , middle , and late , their analogous ac- tivities give vital clues to earlier cultures . Using the Eskimos ' stone oil lamp , a paleolithic artifact , one can estimate the amount of light available to painters in caves where ...
... early , middle , and late , their analogous ac- tivities give vital clues to earlier cultures . Using the Eskimos ' stone oil lamp , a paleolithic artifact , one can estimate the amount of light available to painters in caves where ...
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... earliest men chiefly hunters ? That question demands to be considered if we would assign a proper value to early tool - making . Most of the ' weapons ' in the primeval period assigned to hunting have a more plau- sible function as ...
... earliest men chiefly hunters ? That question demands to be considered if we would assign a proper value to early tool - making . Most of the ' weapons ' in the primeval period assigned to hunting have a more plau- sible function as ...
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... Early man , in his own self - absorption , perhaps tended too often to be immersed in wishful dreams or haunted by nightmares ; and quite possibly the latter increased alarmingly as his mind continued to develop . But from the outset he ...
... Early man , in his own self - absorption , perhaps tended too often to be immersed in wishful dreams or haunted by nightmares ; and quite possibly the latter increased alarmingly as his mind continued to develop . But from the outset he ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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