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breeding habits of wild animals must likewise be assumed, to account for the first
domestication of animals. This began, it would seem, with the dog, but if Eduard
Hahn was correct, it included such barnyard animals as the pig and the duck.
breeding habits of wild animals must likewise be assumed, to account for the first
domestication of animals. This began, it would seem, with the dog, but if Eduard
Hahn was correct, it included such barnyard animals as the pig and the duck.
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The little mesolithic communities became as rooted as the tubers and the mollusc
beds themselves. This indeed was a favorable condition for further experiments
in domestication. The knowledge needed to stimulate such experiments ...
The little mesolithic communities became as rooted as the tubers and the mollusc
beds themselves. This indeed was a favorable condition for further experiments
in domestication. The knowledge needed to stimulate such experiments ...
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CHAPTER SEVEN Garden, Home, and Mother 1: DOMESTICATION
ENTHRONED The earliest animal to come under domestication was man; and
the very word we use to describe the process reveals its point of origin. For '
domus' means ...
CHAPTER SEVEN Garden, Home, and Mother 1: DOMESTICATION
ENTHRONED The earliest animal to come under domestication was man; and
the very word we use to describe the process reveals its point of origin. For '
domus' means ...
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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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