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... least half a million years . But if tools were actually central to mental growth beyond purely animal needs , how is it that those primitive peoples , like the Australian Bushmen , who have the most rudimentary technology , nevertheless ...
... least half a million years . But if tools were actually central to mental growth beyond purely animal needs , how is it that those primitive peoples , like the Australian Bushmen , who have the most rudimentary technology , nevertheless ...
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... least in clothes and food , is a distinctly neolithic contribution . From Indonesia , where tropical horticulture probably first arose , a whole series of neolithic inventions based on bamboo might have spread over a large part of the ...
... least in clothes and food , is a distinctly neolithic contribution . From Indonesia , where tropical horticulture probably first arose , a whole series of neolithic inventions based on bamboo might have spread over a large part of the ...
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Lewis Mumford. constructive technical achievement . It was possible , at least for the more prosperous manufacturing classes , themselves growing in number and in- fluence , as against ... least the fixed PREMONITIONS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI ...
Lewis Mumford. constructive technical achievement . It was possible , at least for the more prosperous manufacturing classes , themselves growing in number and in- fluence , as against ... least the fixed PREMONITIONS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI ...
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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