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Page 13
... contemporary technics will be already apparent , to a sufficiently perceptive mind , from the earliest chapters on . This widened interpretation of the past is a necessary move toward escaping the dire insufficiencies of current one ...
... contemporary technics will be already apparent , to a sufficiently perceptive mind , from the earliest chapters on . This widened interpretation of the past is a necessary move toward escaping the dire insufficiencies of current one ...
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... contemporary European man . Though W. J. Sollas went too far in looking upon the Tasmanian , the Bushman , and the Eskimo as the lineal survivors of their respective paleolithic ancestors , early , middle , and late , their analogous ac ...
... contemporary European man . Though W. J. Sollas went too far in looking upon the Tasmanian , the Bushman , and the Eskimo as the lineal survivors of their respective paleolithic ancestors , early , middle , and late , their analogous ac ...
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... contemporary mud - and - reed architecture in Mesopotamia that helped Leonard Woolley to interpret the traces of prehistoric architec- ture in Sumer ; while the circular clay disks found on Minoan sites remained misidentified until ...
... contemporary mud - and - reed architecture in Mesopotamia that helped Leonard Woolley to interpret the traces of prehistoric architec- ture in Sumer ; while the circular clay disks found on Minoan sites remained misidentified until ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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