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world, too, more than fifteen thousand years before; and the Bushmen had even
earlier practiced the Magdalenian art of cave painting. Apart from the differences
in climatic conditions and human stature, these people were far closer to their ...
world, too, more than fifteen thousand years before; and the Bushmen had even
earlier practiced the Magdalenian art of cave painting. Apart from the differences
in climatic conditions and human stature, these people were far closer to their ...
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Was this perhaps a device deliberately chosen by the 61ite, in their selection of
the almost closed cave, to keep for their own use and instruction the art of making
images: an early anticipation and equivalent of the esoteric language and the ...
Was this perhaps a device deliberately chosen by the 61ite, in their selection of
the almost closed cave, to keep for their own use and instruction the art of making
images: an early anticipation and equivalent of the esoteric language and the ...
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These murals have the advantage of the new technology: the rough irregular
cave wall gives way to the smooth plaster surface, bounded by a rectangle. But
the painting itself shows continuity with the older cave paintings, and contrasts
with ...
These murals have the advantage of the new technology: the rough irregular
cave wall gives way to the smooth plaster surface, bounded by a rectangle. But
the painting itself shows continuity with the older cave paintings, and contrasts
with ...
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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| Title | The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development Volume 1 of The Myth of the Machine, Lewis Mumford The Myth of the Machine; Technics and Human Development, Lewis Mumford |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 19 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 342 pages |
| Subjects | › Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects Technology and civilization |
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