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... interpretation than those they have avoided . The result has been a single - factor explanation of man's original devel- opment centered around the stone tool : an oversimplification in method that has now been abandoned elsewhere as ...
... interpretation than those they have avoided . The result has been a single - factor explanation of man's original devel- opment centered around the stone tool : an oversimplification in method that has now been abandoned elsewhere as ...
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... interpretation of Leonardo's ominous prophecies ; nor was Leonardo himself alone , as Sir Kenneth Clark has pointed out . Clark sees in Leonardo's drawings of deluges a foreboding of cosmic disas- ter , which he connects with other ...
... interpretation of Leonardo's ominous prophecies ; nor was Leonardo himself alone , as Sir Kenneth Clark has pointed out . Clark sees in Leonardo's drawings of deluges a foreboding of cosmic disas- ter , which he connects with other ...
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... interpretation of ceremony , myth , and song among the Australian aborigines ; but vitiated by its acceptance of Freud's uncritical mythology of early man , in which an imaginary event is called upon to sustain a fantastic hypothesis ...
... interpretation of ceremony , myth , and song among the Australian aborigines ; but vitiated by its acceptance of Freud's uncritical mythology of early man , in which an imaginary event is called upon to sustain a fantastic hypothesis ...
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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