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... important than any later assemblage : his own mind - activated body , every part of it , including those members that made clubs , hand - axes or wooden spears . To compensate for his extremely primitive working gear , early man had a ...
... important than any later assemblage : his own mind - activated body , every part of it , including those members that made clubs , hand - axes or wooden spears . To compensate for his extremely primitive working gear , early man had a ...
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... important than his hands , and its size could not be derived solely from his shaping or using of tools ; that ritual and language and social organization which left no material traces whatever , although constantly present in every ...
... important than his hands , and its size could not be derived solely from his shaping or using of tools ; that ritual and language and social organization which left no material traces whatever , although constantly present in every ...
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... important than the physical tools employed . Long before Bronze Age technics had fully utilized the earlier improvements in horticulture and agriculture , archaic man had done the preliminary work of exploration so well that except for ...
... important than the physical tools employed . Long before Bronze Age technics had fully utilized the earlier improvements in horticulture and agriculture , archaic man had done the preliminary work of exploration so well that except for ...
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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