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... cultivation , which would in- clude the care and eventual planting of various nutritive starchy tropical roots , like the yam and the taro plants . At length came the twofold process of domestication , plants and animals together , that ...
... cultivation , which would in- clude the care and eventual planting of various nutritive starchy tropical roots , like the yam and the taro plants . At length came the twofold process of domestication , plants and animals together , that ...
Page 134
... cultivation and for keeping the soil friable went on even more slowly than the improvement of plants , was the restrictive lack of adequate tools . Though neolithic cultivation is often referred to as hoe culture , the hoe is a ...
... cultivation and for keeping the soil friable went on even more slowly than the improvement of plants , was the restrictive lack of adequate tools . Though neolithic cultivation is often referred to as hoe culture , the hoe is a ...
Page 139
... cultivation of grains made man assured of his daily nourish- ment , provided he worked steadily and consecutively , as he had never been certain of the supply of game or his luck in killing it . With bread and oil , bread and butter ...
... cultivation of grains made man assured of his daily nourish- ment , provided he worked steadily and consecutively , as he had never been certain of the supply of game or his luck in killing it . With bread and oil , bread and butter ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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