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... material instruments of production dominated all his other activities . As long as the paleoanthropologist regarded material objects - mainly bones and stones as the only scientifically admissible evidence of early man's activities ...
... material instruments of production dominated all his other activities . As long as the paleoanthropologist regarded material objects - mainly bones and stones as the only scientifically admissible evidence of early man's activities ...
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... material remains , while stone tools can be associated with recognizable hominid bones for at least half a million years . But if tools were actually central to mental growth beyond purely animal needs , how is it that those primitive ...
... material remains , while stone tools can be associated with recognizable hominid bones for at least half a million years . But if tools were actually central to mental growth beyond purely animal needs , how is it that those primitive ...
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... material culture except fire , with a single sealskin to keep off the harsh weather , he thought their speech was barely human . But an English clergyman , Thomas Bridges , who lived among a single one of these tribes , the Yahgans ...
... material culture except fire , with a single sealskin to keep off the harsh weather , he thought their speech was barely human . But an English clergyman , Thomas Bridges , who lived among a single one of these tribes , the Yahgans ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancestors ancient animal Aurignacian became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation domestication dream earliest early man's economy economy of abundance effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods Homo sapiens human culture human development hunter hunting images institution interpretation Iron Age king labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once organization original paintings paleolithic paleolithic art performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice sexual significant social species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical Technics and Civilization thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York