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... later savages , it would have worked against the survival of the groups practicing it , since the human population was extremely sparse and no one would have been safe against his neighbor's hunger . We know , from later evidence , that ...
... later savages , it would have worked against the survival of the groups practicing it , since the human population was extremely sparse and no one would have been safe against his neighbor's hunger . We know , from later evidence , that ...
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... Later irrigation machines , once called typically Oriental , were in fact , Heichelheim reminds us , invented during the third century B.C. as a con- sequence of Hellenistic progress in mathematics . Later than Archimedes , Ctesibius ...
... Later irrigation machines , once called typically Oriental , were in fact , Heichelheim reminds us , invented during the third century B.C. as a con- sequence of Hellenistic progress in mathematics . Later than Archimedes , Ctesibius ...
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... later have the first glass vessels been dated . At the end of the first century B.C. we indeed have evidence of glass blowing ; and less than a century later Seneca reports as recent " the use of glass windows which let in the full ...
... later have the first glass vessels been dated . At the end of the first century B.C. we indeed have evidence of glass blowing ; and less than a century later Seneca reports as recent " the use of glass windows which let in the full ...
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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