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... give vital clues to earlier cultures . Using the Eskimos ' stone oil lamp , a paleolithic artifact , one can estimate the amount of light available to painters in caves where similar paleolithic lamps were found . From the Eskimos ...
... give vital clues to earlier cultures . Using the Eskimos ' stone oil lamp , a paleolithic artifact , one can estimate the amount of light available to painters in caves where similar paleolithic lamps were found . From the Eskimos ...
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... gives exclusively to quantitative measures and logical abstractions the same magical properties that the primitive mind gave to colorful figures of speech . But we do ill to read back our own highly specialized ' disease of ab ...
... gives exclusively to quantitative measures and logical abstractions the same magical properties that the primitive mind gave to colorful figures of speech . But we do ill to read back our own highly specialized ' disease of ab ...
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... along with ritual and dance , must be given a fuller share of credit for man's development . Let me give a concrete example of the way intelligence must have developed long before man had a large kit of tools THE OLD EXPLORATION 103.
... along with ritual and dance , must be given a fuller share of credit for man's development . Let me give a concrete example of the way intelligence must have developed long before man had a large kit of tools THE OLD EXPLORATION 103.
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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 became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation 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 images increase institution interpretation Iron Age king labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once organization original paintings paleolithic paleolithic art performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice sexual significant social species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical Technics and Civilization thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York