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... recorded or unrecorded ; and the very existence of grammatically complex and highly articulated lan- guages at the onset of civilization five thousand years ago , when tools were still extremely primitive , suggests that the human race ...
... recorded or unrecorded ; and the very existence of grammatically complex and highly articulated lan- guages at the onset of civilization five thousand years ago , when tools were still extremely primitive , suggests that the human race ...
Page 119
... recorded on the walls as it can now be recorded on film . If magic ritual was invoked by the hunter , it was because in the very performance of it he acquired both the insight and the skill necessary to carry out his task successfully ...
... recorded on the walls as it can now be recorded on film . If magic ritual was invoked by the hunter , it was because in the very performance of it he acquired both the insight and the skill necessary to carry out his task successfully ...
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... recorded on two famous Egyptian palettes , begins at the point where the paleolithic hunting chief , the first among equals , passes over into the powerful king , who takes to his own person all the powers and prerogatives of the ...
... recorded on two famous Egyptian palettes , begins at the point where the paleolithic hunting chief , the first among equals , passes over into the powerful king , who takes to his own person all the powers and prerogatives of the ...
Contents
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