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... existence of grammatically complex and highly articulated lan- guages at the onset of civilization five thousand years ago , when tools were still extremely primitive , suggests that the human race may have had even more fundamental ...
... existence of grammatically complex and highly articulated lan- guages at the onset of civilization five thousand years ago , when tools were still extremely primitive , suggests that the human race may have had even more fundamental ...
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... existence , not least man's , depends upon the sun and fluctuates with the sun's flares and spots , and with the earth's cyclical relations to the sun , with all the changes of the weather and the seasons that ac- company these events ...
... existence , not least man's , depends upon the sun and fluctuates with the sun's flares and spots , and with the earth's cyclical relations to the sun , with all the changes of the weather and the seasons that ac- company these events ...
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... existence - if only because the last steps always prove the easiest . The relative rapidity of man's advance , in a period when the physical conditions of existence , up to 10,000 B.C. were often quite formidable , would indicate two ...
... existence - if only because the last steps always prove the easiest . The relative rapidity of man's advance , in a period when the physical conditions of existence , up to 10,000 B.C. were often quite formidable , would indicate two ...
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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