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... Mesolithic , and from then on to around 3500 B.C. Neolithic - provided one uses these dates only to describe the areas where significant changes first took place and where they reached their particular climax . The technical facilities ...
... Mesolithic , and from then on to around 3500 B.C. Neolithic - provided one uses these dates only to describe the areas where significant changes first took place and where they reached their particular climax . The technical facilities ...
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... mesolithic domestication , with the year - round habitation of a single site , marks a necessary transition - in widely scattered areas and at different times - between the paleolithic and neolithic periods . In the later development of ...
... mesolithic domestication , with the year - round habitation of a single site , marks a necessary transition - in widely scattered areas and at different times - between the paleolithic and neolithic periods . In the later development of ...
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... mesolithic culture we find the beginnings of a stable occupancy of the land , through all seasons — the very condition essential for the exhaustive observation of the habits of plants that exhibit sexual reproduction and must be ...
... mesolithic culture we find the beginnings of a stable occupancy of the land , through all seasons — the very condition essential for the exhaustive observation of the habits of plants that exhibit sexual reproduction and must be ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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