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... Magdalenian art of cave painting . Apart from the differences in climatic conditions and human stature , these people were far closer to their remote ancestral cultures than they were to contemporary European man . Though W. J. Sollas ...
... Magdalenian art of cave painting . Apart from the differences in climatic conditions and human stature , these people were far closer to their remote ancestral cultures than they were to contemporary European man . Though W. J. Sollas ...
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... Magdalenian hunters already follow the Bushmen's practice of cunningly tipping their arrows with stronger or weaker poisons , derived from the amaryllis , the scorpion , the spider , or the snake , according to the size and vitality of ...
... Magdalenian hunters already follow the Bushmen's practice of cunningly tipping their arrows with stronger or weaker poisons , derived from the amaryllis , the scorpion , the spider , or the snake , according to the size and vitality of ...
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... Magdalenian times , minds of a superior order had not merely come into existence but had produced a culture through which potentialities hitherto undiscovered could be expressed and used . In surveying paleolithic technics I have sought ...
... Magdalenian times , minds of a superior order had not merely come into existence but had produced a culture through which potentialities hitherto undiscovered could be expressed and used . In surveying paleolithic technics I have sought ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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