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... limited by their feebleness : unarmed man , using only his hands , feet , teeth , can do little damage to other men , still less to the en- vironment : even with a stone or a club , his scope is limited , except in at- tacking helpless ...
... limited by their feebleness : unarmed man , using only his hands , feet , teeth , can do little damage to other men , still less to the en- vironment : even with a stone or a club , his scope is limited , except in at- tacking helpless ...
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... limited territory , but deliberately ' going out of bounds ' to seize raw materials and enslave help- less men , to exercise control , to exact tribute . This new culture was dedi- cated , not just to the enhancement of life , but to ...
... limited territory , but deliberately ' going out of bounds ' to seize raw materials and enslave help- less men , to exercise control , to exact tribute . This new culture was dedi- cated , not just to the enhancement of life , but to ...
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... interpretations of the way the population remained limited despite an abundant food supply . Wallon , Henri . Histoire de l'esclavage dans l'antiquité . Paris : 1879 . Walter , W. Grey . The Living Brain . London BIBLIOGRAPHY 321.
... interpretations of the way the population remained limited despite an abundant food supply . Wallon , Henri . Histoire de l'esclavage dans l'antiquité . Paris : 1879 . Walter , W. Grey . The Living Brain . London BIBLIOGRAPHY 321.
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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