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... quantity ; and for the first time in history neolithic peoples achieved a continuously balanced diet , adequate through the year because some of it could be dried and stored . If I have emphasized the regulative effect of the grinding ...
... quantity ; and for the first time in history neolithic peoples achieved a continuously balanced diet , adequate through the year because some of it could be dried and stored . If I have emphasized the regulative effect of the grinding ...
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... quantity to take the place of most of the human components , the megamachine would remain vul- nerable . I have cited this revolt , whose consequences if not its detailed chain of causes are attested , because it must stand for many ...
... quantity to take the place of most of the human components , the megamachine would remain vul- nerable . I have cited this revolt , whose consequences if not its detailed chain of causes are attested , because it must stand for many ...
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... quantity was altogether neglected : this came in with capitalism and long - distance trade . Even in symbolic objects quantity and cheapness might play a part . By reducing the size of a fabricated article , as in a Tanagra figurine ...
... quantity was altogether neglected : this came in with capitalism and long - distance trade . Even in symbolic objects quantity and cheapness might play a part . By reducing the size of a fabricated article , as in a Tanagra figurine ...
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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