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... Mesolithic , and from then on to around 3500 B.C. Neolithic - provided one uses these dates only to describe the areas where significant changes first took place and where they reached their particular climax . The technical facilities ...
... Mesolithic , and from then on to around 3500 B.C. Neolithic - provided one uses these dates only to describe the areas where significant changes first took place and where they reached their particular climax . The technical facilities ...
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... mesolithic domestication , with the year - round habitation of a single site , marks a necessary transition — in widely scattered areas and at different times - between the paleolithic and neolithic periods . In the later development of ...
... mesolithic domestication , with the year - round habitation of a single site , marks a necessary transition — in widely scattered areas and at different times - between the paleolithic and neolithic periods . In the later development of ...
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... mesolithic culture we find the beginnings of a stable occupancy of the land , through all seasons - the very condition essential for the exhaustive observation of the habits of plants that exhibit sexual reproduction and must be ...
... mesolithic culture we find the beginnings of a stable occupancy of the land , through all seasons - the very condition essential for the exhaustive observation of the habits of plants that exhibit sexual reproduction and must be ...
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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