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Page 137
... daily routine of the neolithic hamlet intolerable , as compared with the excite- ment of the chase , or of fishing with net and line . Such people reverted to the hunt or became nomadic ... daily grinding . With the THE DAILY GRIND 137.
... daily routine of the neolithic hamlet intolerable , as compared with the excite- ment of the chase , or of fishing with net and line . Such people reverted to the hunt or became nomadic ... daily grinding . With the THE DAILY GRIND 137.
Page 139
... Daily bread brought a security in the food supply that had never before been possible . Despite seasonal fluctuations in yield due to floods or droughts , the cultivation of grains made man assured of his daily nourish- ment , provided ...
... Daily bread brought a security in the food supply that had never before been possible . Despite seasonal fluctuations in yield due to floods or droughts , the cultivation of grains made man assured of his daily nourish- ment , provided ...
Page 139
... daily routine of the neolithic hamlet intolerable , as compared with the excite- ment of the chase , or of fishing with net and line . Such people reverted to the hunt or became nomadic ... daily grinding . With the THE DAILY GRIND 137.
... daily routine of the neolithic hamlet intolerable , as compared with the excite- ment of the chase , or of fishing with net and line . Such people reverted to the hunt or became nomadic ... daily grinding . With the THE DAILY GRIND 137.
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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