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... Homo sapiens . In short , if technical proficiency alone were suf- ficient to identify and foster intelligence , man was for long a laggard , com- pared with many other species . The consequences of this perception should be plain ...
... Homo sapiens . In short , if technical proficiency alone were suf- ficient to identify and foster intelligence , man was for long a laggard , com- pared with many other species . The consequences of this perception should be plain ...
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... Homo sapiens nor Homo ludens , but above all Homo faber , man the maker , had taken such firm possession of present - day Western thinkers that even Henri Bergson held it . So certain were nineteenth - century archeologists about the ...
... Homo sapiens nor Homo ludens , but above all Homo faber , man the maker , had taken such firm possession of present - day Western thinkers that even Henri Bergson held it . So certain were nineteenth - century archeologists about the ...
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... Homo ludens , ' 7 Homo sapiens , 5 , 20 , 23 , 25 , 40 , 112 , 123 Homunculus , living , 282 Honey bees , 76 Hormonal promptings , 26 Horn as sexual symbol , [ 4 ] Horse , 135 ' Horse - and - buggy ' age , [ 24 ] Horseless carriages ...
... Homo ludens , ' 7 Homo sapiens , 5 , 20 , 23 , 25 , 40 , 112 , 123 Homunculus , living , 282 Honey bees , 76 Hormonal promptings , 26 Horn as sexual symbol , [ 4 ] Horse , 135 ' Horse - and - buggy ' age , [ 24 ] Horseless carriages ...
Contents
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