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... paleolithic man had been as indifferent to stone as civilized man has long proved indifferent to the organic environment , civilization itself would never have taken form , for , as we shall soon see , it was originally a Stone Age ...
... paleolithic man had been as indifferent to stone as civilized man has long proved indifferent to the organic environment , civilization itself would never have taken form , for , as we shall soon see , it was originally a Stone Age ...
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... paleolithic hunt . In both cases , fortitude in pursuit , un- flinching courage , and the ability on the part of the ... paleolithic man seems to have nourished a sacred fear , as with his later totemic animals . The skulls of these ...
... paleolithic hunt . In both cases , fortitude in pursuit , un- flinching courage , and the ability on the part of the ... paleolithic man seems to have nourished a sacred fear , as with his later totemic animals . The skulls of these ...
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... Paleolithic , 126 Paleolithic art , 118 ; mean- ings of , 120 ; themes of , [ 2-3 ] Paleolithic culture , con- tributions of , 124 Paleolithic hunt , whaling parallel to , 117 Paleolithic hunter , 169 ; virtues of , 116 Paleolithic ...
... Paleolithic , 126 Paleolithic art , 118 ; mean- ings of , 120 ; themes of , [ 2-3 ] Paleolithic culture , con- tributions of , 124 Paleolithic hunt , whaling parallel to , 117 Paleolithic hunter , 169 ; virtues of , 116 Paleolithic ...
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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