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... once called eoliths , are the work of nature or man ; and there is no tangible evidence to indicate what the so - called hand- axe , the chief tool of early paleolithic peoples for hundreds of thousands of years , was actually used for ...
... once called eoliths , are the work of nature or man ; and there is no tangible evidence to indicate what the so - called hand- axe , the chief tool of early paleolithic peoples for hundreds of thousands of years , was actually used for ...
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... once the begin- nings of language were made , it was surely in endless conversations and story - tellings around the fire that he perfected the vehicle of speech . This ancient art charmingly surprised that sympathetic proto ...
... once the begin- nings of language were made , it was surely in endless conversations and story - tellings around the fire that he perfected the vehicle of speech . This ancient art charmingly surprised that sympathetic proto ...
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... once more democratized the making of images ; while in one department after another the sort of material goods that had once been restricted to a small caste were now becoming available to a larger population : indeed , the power ...
... once more democratized the making of images ; while in one department after another the sort of material goods that had once been restricted to a small caste were now becoming available to a larger population : indeed , the power ...
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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