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Page 116
... paleolithic man had been as indifferent to stone as civilized man has long proved indifferent to the organic environment , civilization itself would never have taken form , for , as we shall soon see , it was originally a Stone Age ...
... paleolithic man had been as indifferent to stone as civilized man has long proved indifferent to the organic environment , civilization itself would never have taken form , for , as we shall soon see , it was originally a Stone Age ...
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... paleolithic hunt . In both cases , fortitude in pursuit , un- flinching courage , and the ability on the part of the ... paleolithic man seems to have nourished a sacred fear , as with his later totemic animals . The skulls of these ...
... paleolithic hunt . In both cases , fortitude in pursuit , un- flinching courage , and the ability on the part of the ... paleolithic man seems to have nourished a sacred fear , as with his later totemic animals . The skulls of these ...
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... Paleolithic , 126 Paleolithic art , 118 ; mean- ings of , 120 ; themes of , [ 2-3 ] Paleolithic culture , con- tributions of , 124 Paleolithic hunt , whaling parallel to , 117 Paleolithic hunter , 169 ; virtues of , 116 Paleolithic ...
... Paleolithic , 126 Paleolithic art , 118 ; mean- ings of , 120 ; themes of , [ 2-3 ] Paleolithic culture , con- tributions of , 124 Paleolithic hunt , whaling parallel to , 117 Paleolithic hunter , 169 ; virtues of , 116 Paleolithic ...
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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