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... making it sharable, was well accounted for by Leroi-Gourhan, who observed
that "if the slightest gap had ever interrupted the slow acquisition of basic
techniques, everything would have been to do over again." Before speech was
achieved, ...
... making it sharable, was well accounted for by Leroi-Gourhan, who observed
that "if the slightest gap had ever interrupted the slow acquisition of basic
techniques, everything would have been to do over again." Before speech was
achieved, ...
Page 161
All this may be said on behalf of the archaic neolithic synthesis; but once seed
cultivation was achieved, its greatest days were over and all the adventurous
experiments of domestication had reached a terminus. By the Fifth Millennium in
the ...
All this may be said on behalf of the archaic neolithic synthesis; but once seed
cultivation was achieved, its greatest days were over and all the adventurous
experiments of domestication had reached a terminus. By the Fifth Millennium in
the ...
Page 273
Unlike the continuity achieved in the art and architecture of early Egypt after the
Pyramid Age, medieval continuity was preserved in the midst of constant change
of both contents and form; and its effectiveness over the centuries was in radical ...
Unlike the continuity achieved in the art and architecture of early Egypt after the
Pyramid Age, medieval continuity was preserved in the midst of constant change
of both contents and form; and its effectiveness over the centuries was in radical ...
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Contents
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 Australopithecines became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation divine 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 Ice Age images increase institution interpretation Iron Age king kingship labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic neolithic culture Oakes Ames observation once organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible potter's wheel practice primitive production rational ritual royal sacred sacrifice sexual significant social species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York
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| Title | The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development Volume 1 of The Myth of the Machine, Lewis Mumford The Myth of the Machine; Technics and Human Development, Lewis Mumford |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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