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Page 168
... Pyramid Age was effected with only small , modest , mechanically primitive instruments : chisels , saws , mallets , ropes . The huge stones that were transported for miles to the pyramids at Giza were borne on wooden sledges , and ...
... Pyramid Age was effected with only small , modest , mechanically primitive instruments : chisels , saws , mallets , ropes . The huge stones that were transported for miles to the pyramids at Giza were borne on wooden sledges , and ...
Page 213
... pyramid established during the Pyramid Age in the Fertile Crescent continued to be the model for every civilized society , long after the building of these geometric tombs ceased to be fashionable . At the top stood a minority , swollen ...
... pyramid established during the Pyramid Age in the Fertile Crescent continued to be the model for every civilized society , long after the building of these geometric tombs ceased to be fashionable . At the top stood a minority , swollen ...
Page 337
... Pyramid Age , 3 , 11 , 15 , 168 , 189 , 194 , 200 , 205 , 213 ; collapse of the , 230 ' Pyramid Building , ' 205 ; impoverishment by , 215 Pyramid Texts , 202 Pyramids , Egyptian , 12 Pythagoras , 253 Qualitative values , 253 ...
... Pyramid Age , 3 , 11 , 15 , 168 , 189 , 194 , 200 , 205 , 213 ; collapse of the , 230 ' Pyramid Building , ' 205 ; impoverishment by , 215 Pyramid Texts , 202 Pyramids , Egyptian , 12 Pythagoras , 253 Qualitative values , 253 ...
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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