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Page 105
... improvement within a relatively short distance . If each foot represented a year , these improvements would have to be strung along a distance of roughly ninety miles , of which only the last five or ten miles would denote a period of ...
... improvement within a relatively short distance . If each foot represented a year , these improvements would have to be strung along a distance of roughly ninety miles , of which only the last five or ten miles would denote a period of ...
Page 134
... improved in shape , and attached , however infirmly , to a handle , and a new technique in making other cut- ting ... improvement of plants , was the restrictive lack of adequate tools . Though neolithic cultivation is often referred ...
... improved in shape , and attached , however infirmly , to a handle , and a new technique in making other cut- ting ... improvement of plants , was the restrictive lack of adequate tools . Though neolithic cultivation is often referred ...
Page 139
... improvement . By itself it expresses a definite characteristic of the whole culture . The patient application to a single task , reduced to a single monotonous set of motions , advancing slowly , almost imperceptibly , toward completion ...
... improvement . By itself it expresses a definite characteristic of the whole culture . The patient application to a single task , reduced to a single monotonous set of motions , advancing slowly , almost imperceptibly , toward completion ...
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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