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... Iron Age . The chief means of working the soil , right into Egyptian and Sumerian times , was the digging - stick , sometimes with a stone attached near the bottom to weight it . Even after the plow had been invented , it was actually a ...
... Iron Age . The chief means of working the soil , right into Egyptian and Sumerian times , was the digging - stick , sometimes with a stone attached near the bottom to weight it . Even after the plow had been invented , it was actually a ...
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... Iron Age , when the Romans under Nero planned the cutting of the Corinth Canal through ninety - eight feet of dirt and rock : a work that , if it had then been consummated , would have topped all their road and aqueduct construction ...
... Iron Age , when the Romans under Nero planned the cutting of the Corinth Canal through ninety - eight feet of dirt and rock : a work that , if it had then been consummated , would have topped all their road and aqueduct construction ...
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... Iron Age , 156 , 169 , 242 Iron hoe , 156 Irrationality , 40 ; historic explanation of , 52 ; man's superior , 10 ; widening domain of , 56 Isaac , Erich , 147 , 153 Isenheim Altar , [ 6 ] Isis , 174 Islam , 232 Isolation , mental , 82 ...
... Iron Age , 156 , 169 , 242 Iron hoe , 156 Irrationality , 40 ; historic explanation of , 52 ; man's superior , 10 ; widening domain of , 56 Isaac , Erich , 147 , 153 Isenheim Altar , [ 6 ] Isis , 174 Islam , 232 Isolation , mental , 82 ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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