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... equally solid but also equally uncertain bit of testimony : the human skeleton , all too rarely available in complete form : in particular , the brain case . There is evidence , from other animals than man , cited by Bernhard Rensch ...
... equally solid but also equally uncertain bit of testimony : the human skeleton , all too rarely available in complete form : in particular , the brain case . There is evidence , from other animals than man , cited by Bernhard Rensch ...
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... equally native and equally pleasurable to the very young ; and because this native capacity for forms that can be fixed and repeated was so deeply rooted and so subjectively rewarding it seems probable that it provided the groundwork of ...
... equally native and equally pleasurable to the very young ; and because this native capacity for forms that can be fixed and repeated was so deeply rooted and so subjectively rewarding it seems probable that it provided the groundwork of ...
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... equally varied , equally demanding , equally enjoyable , in which the whole community could participate , on a far higher level of well - being than had been possible in a mainly food - gathering economy . This daily work not merely ...
... equally varied , equally demanding , equally enjoyable , in which the whole community could participate , on a far higher level of well - being than had been possible in a mainly food - gathering economy . This daily work not merely ...
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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