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Lewis Mumford. In the late paleolithic period , certain ' Aurignacian ' and ' Magdalenian ' hunting peoples made another leap upward by transfixing conscious images in painted and sculptured objects . This left a trail that can now be ...
Lewis Mumford. In the late paleolithic period , certain ' Aurignacian ' and ' Magdalenian ' hunting peoples made another leap upward by transfixing conscious images in painted and sculptured objects . This left a trail that can now be ...
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... Magdalenian hunter had attained this state of sensory vividness and esthetic tension is shown , not merely by the evocative realism of his highly abstract representations , but by the fact that many of his animals are depicted in motion ...
... Magdalenian hunter had attained this state of sensory vividness and esthetic tension is shown , not merely by the evocative realism of his highly abstract representations , but by the fact that many of his animals are depicted in motion ...
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... Magdalenian spearheads and grav- ers . But the grinding of even soft stones is a tedious and laborious process ; granite or diorite , both extremely hard , demand a willingness to endure drudgery that no human group had ever imposed on ...
... Magdalenian spearheads and grav- ers . But the grinding of even soft stones is a tedious and laborious process ; granite or diorite , both extremely hard , demand a willingness to endure drudgery that no human group had ever imposed on ...
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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