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... contemporary mud - and - reed architecture in Mesopotamia that helped Leonard Woolley to interpret the traces of prehistoric architec- ture in Sumer ; while the circular clay disks found on Minoan sites remained misidentified until ...
... contemporary mud - and - reed architecture in Mesopotamia that helped Leonard Woolley to interpret the traces of prehistoric architec- ture in Sumer ; while the circular clay disks found on Minoan sites remained misidentified until ...
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... contemporary with equivalent ad- vances in art , though the fore - stages in the latter case are obscure , for sud- denly well - modelled figures appear , out of a ' nowhere ' that cannot yet be adequately described . From the very ...
... contemporary with equivalent ad- vances in art , though the fore - stages in the latter case are obscure , for sud- denly well - modelled figures appear , out of a ' nowhere ' that cannot yet be adequately described . From the very ...
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... , whereas later pictures , contemporary with kingship , do . Again , though ancient Crete was colonized by distinct and therefore potentially hostile groups , Childe pointed out that " 216 THE BURDEN OF CIVILIZATION '
... , whereas later pictures , contemporary with kingship , do . Again , though ancient Crete was colonized by distinct and therefore potentially hostile groups , Childe pointed out that " 216 THE BURDEN OF CIVILIZATION '
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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