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... Bushmen had even earlier practiced the Magdalenian art of cave painting . Apart from the differences in climatic ... Bushman , and the Eskimo as the lineal survivors of their respective paleolithic ancestors , early , middle , and late ...
... Bushmen had even earlier practiced the Magdalenian art of cave painting . Apart from the differences in climatic ... Bushman , and the Eskimo as the lineal survivors of their respective paleolithic ancestors , early , middle , and late ...
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... Bushmen , who have the most rudimentary technology , nevertheless exhibit elaborate religious ceremonials , an extremely complicated kinship organiza- tion , and a complex and differentiated language ? Why , further , were highly ...
... Bushmen , who have the most rudimentary technology , nevertheless exhibit elaborate religious ceremonials , an extremely complicated kinship organiza- tion , and a complex and differentiated language ? Why , further , were highly ...
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... Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert . In the dry season , when there is a dire lack of water , the Bushmen gather a plant called bi for its watery fibrous root , and bring it back to the werf , the hollow that serves as a home , before the ...
... Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert . In the dry season , when there is a dire lack of water , the Bushmen gather a plant called bi for its watery fibrous root , and bring it back to the werf , the hollow that serves as a home , before the ...
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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 ancient animal anxiety Aurignacian became beginning Bertrand Gille brain Bronze Age bureaucracy Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization collective command complex consciousness creature cultivation daily destruction divine domestication dream earliest economic effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods human machine hunter hunting images institution interpretation king kingship Kurt Goldstein labor language later Lower Egypt Magdalenian magic Marduk means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once operations organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production pyramid of Djoser rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice Sargon of Akkad sexual significant social speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion took tool-making traits turn village watermill weapons whole words York