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... Mesopotamia that helped Leonard Woolley to interpret the traces of prehistoric architec- ture in Sumer ; while the circular clay disks found on Minoan sites remained misidentified until Stephanos Xanthodides recognized them as the upper ...
... Mesopotamia that helped Leonard Woolley to interpret the traces of prehistoric architec- ture in Sumer ; while the circular clay disks found on Minoan sites remained misidentified until Stephanos Xanthodides recognized them as the upper ...
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... Mesopotamia- the chief food and fiber plants of man had already been domesticated , and some food plants like Camelina , ' gold of pleasure , ' which have now dropped out of cultivation , were then used for oil . Flax , too , may have ...
... Mesopotamia- the chief food and fiber plants of man had already been domesticated , and some food plants like Camelina , ' gold of pleasure , ' which have now dropped out of cultivation , were then used for oil . Flax , too , may have ...
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... Mesopotamian ] is unthinkable without a superior author- ity to impose his will . " One can match Jacobsen's emphasis ... Mesopotamia he served usually as a surrogate , yet with full ' powers - of- attorney , ' as long as his luck held ...
... Mesopotamian ] is unthinkable without a superior author- ity to impose his will . " One can match Jacobsen's emphasis ... Mesopotamia he served usually as a surrogate , yet with full ' powers - of- attorney , ' as long as his luck held ...
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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