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From the fact that the thigh bones of Peking Man in the Choukoutien caves were
found cracked open, various anthropologists jumped to the conclusion that this
creature was a cannibal. Possibly he was. But all we actually know is that the ...
From the fact that the thigh bones of Peking Man in the Choukoutien caves were
found cracked open, various anthropologists jumped to the conclusion that this
creature was a cannibal. Possibly he was. But all we actually know is that the ...
Page 48
He is the one creature whose external activities, we once more begin to see,
cannot be fully accounted for without reference to a most peculiar kind of inner
activity: the dream. Before man emerged from unconsciousness, we must picture
him ...
He is the one creature whose external activities, we once more begin to see,
cannot be fully accounted for without reference to a most peculiar kind of inner
activity: the dream. Before man emerged from unconsciousness, we must picture
him ...
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Hunting under paleolithic conditions was not a hit-or-miss scramble for food: it
required forethought, a studious, carefully rehearsed strategy, intimate
knowledge, graphically conveyable, of the anatomy of the hunted creature: such
a ...
Hunting under paleolithic conditions was not a hit-or-miss scramble for food: it
required forethought, a studious, carefully rehearsed strategy, intimate
knowledge, graphically conveyable, of the anatomy of the hunted creature: such
a ...
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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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