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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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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 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 society species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical Technics and Civilization thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York