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... Bushmen had even earlier practiced the Magdalenian art of cave painting . Apart from the differences in climatic ... Bushman , and the Eskimo as the lineal survivors of their respective paleolithic ancestors , early , middle , and late ...
... Bushmen had even earlier practiced the Magdalenian art of cave painting . Apart from the differences in climatic ... Bushman , and the Eskimo as the lineal survivors of their respective paleolithic ancestors , early , middle , and late ...
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... Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert . In the dry season , when there is a dire lack of water , the Bushmen gather a plant called bi for its watery fibrous root , and bring it back to the werf , the hollow that serves as a home , before the ...
... Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert . In the dry season , when there is a dire lack of water , the Bushmen gather a plant called bi for its watery fibrous root , and bring it back to the werf , the hollow that serves as a home , before the ...
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... Bushmen , almost into recent times . The hunters shown here are highly stylized , but animated , indeed intensely dy- namic , moving over the wall as in a dance . Were such fluent compositions perhaps a last expression of the hunters ...
... Bushmen , almost into recent times . The hunters shown here are highly stylized , but animated , indeed intensely dy- namic , moving over the wall as in a dance . Were such fluent compositions perhaps a last expression of the hunters ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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