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... Oakes Ames called the " carry - over period " of uninterrupted knowledge of food plants , from primate times on , which led in the mesolithic phase to the deliberate selection and improvement of food plants , particularly the tropical ...
... Oakes Ames called the " carry - over period " of uninterrupted knowledge of food plants , from primate times on , which led in the mesolithic phase to the deliberate selection and improvement of food plants , particularly the tropical ...
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... Ames , Adelbert . See Cantrill , Hadley . Ames , Oakes . Economic Annuals and Human Cultures . Cambridge : 1939 . Significant analysis of the domestication of food plants , which shows the need to revise the present picture of a sudden ...
... Ames , Adelbert . See Cantrill , Hadley . Ames , Oakes . Economic Annuals and Human Cultures . Cambridge : 1939 . Significant analysis of the domestication of food plants , which shows the need to revise the present picture of a sudden ...
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... Oakes Ames . Land and Life . A Selection from the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer , edited , with an introduction by John Leighly . Berkeley : 1963 . A notable series of papers , many of them permanent landmarks in the interpretation of ...
... Oakes Ames . Land and Life . A Selection from the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer , edited , with an introduction by John Leighly . Berkeley : 1963 . A notable series of papers , many of them permanent landmarks in the interpretation of ...
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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