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Page 142
... continued to range abroad in search of game or fish . Daryll Forde points out that among surviving peoples living under much the same conditions " patches on which wild yams grew abundantly were protected , partially cleared , and ...
... continued to range abroad in search of game or fish . Daryll Forde points out that among surviving peoples living under much the same conditions " patches on which wild yams grew abundantly were protected , partially cleared , and ...
Page 213
... 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 by pride and power , headed by the king and his supporting ...
... 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 by pride and power , headed by the king and his supporting ...
Page 294
... continued improvement were what alone could give meaning to human existence . Within a century or two , the ideological fabric that supported the ancient megamachine had been reconstructed on a new and improved model . Power , speed ...
... continued improvement were what alone could give meaning to human existence . Within a century or two , the ideological fabric that supported the ancient megamachine had been reconstructed on a new and improved model . Power , speed ...
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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