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... Magdalenian ' hunting peoples made another leap upward by transfixing conscious images in painted and sculptured objects . This left a trail that can now be followed into the later arts of architecture , painting , sculpture , and ...
... Magdalenian ' hunting peoples made another leap upward by transfixing conscious images in painted and sculptured objects . This left a trail that can now be followed into the later arts of architecture , painting , sculpture , and ...
Page 114
... Magdalenian picture of a very Pan - like figure , either a masked sorcerer or an imaginary being , half man , half animal , like Pan himself . But who knows when a music - making reed was first invented ? " Ukwane took out his hunting ...
... Magdalenian picture of a very Pan - like figure , either a masked sorcerer or an imaginary being , half man , half animal , like Pan himself . But who knows when a music - making reed was first invented ? " Ukwane took out his hunting ...
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... Magdalenian cave paintings they are the proof of a still more general and many - sided achievement in building a symbolic world . These gifts were scattered and unevenly distributed : and they continued to develop unevenly , so that no ...
... Magdalenian cave paintings they are the proof of a still more general and many - sided achievement in building a symbolic world . These gifts were scattered and unevenly distributed : and they continued to develop unevenly , so that no ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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