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... evidence but in putting together authentic fragments that are accidentally , or sometimes arbitrarily , separated , because specialists tend to abide too rigorously by a gentlemen's agreement not to invade each other's territory ...
... evidence but in putting together authentic fragments that are accidentally , or sometimes arbitrarily , separated , because specialists tend to abide too rigorously by a gentlemen's agreement not to invade each other's territory ...
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... evidence is full of holes ; and its inadequacy has been covered over by speculations far more airy than any I shall dare to bring forward . There is still a doubt , in some cases impossible to resolve , whether heaps of almost shapeless ...
... evidence is full of holes ; and its inadequacy has been covered over by speculations far more airy than any I shall dare to bring forward . There is still a doubt , in some cases impossible to resolve , whether heaps of almost shapeless ...
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... evidence for the watermill's use on a great scale reappears in the eleventh century , that this was a fresh re - invention . Though I have stressed the three key Greek inventions , because they have been under - rated , I must add ...
... evidence for the watermill's use on a great scale reappears in the eleventh century , that this was a fresh re - invention . Though I have stressed the three key Greek inventions , because they have been under - rated , I must add ...
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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