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... thousand years : tool- making perhaps farther . Whatever man's ancestral deficiencies , he was at least well - seasoned . Many animals found these conditions difficult . Some surmounted them by acquiring heavy coverings of wool , like ...
... thousand years : tool- making perhaps farther . Whatever man's ancestral deficiencies , he was at least well - seasoned . Many animals found these conditions difficult . Some surmounted them by acquiring heavy coverings of wool , like ...
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... thousand or more years ago , cannot be accused of making headlong advances . But around thirty thousand years ago the time - scale changes . Though new finds may shift these provisional datings , one definable culture follows another at ...
... thousand or more years ago , cannot be accused of making headlong advances . But around thirty thousand years ago the time - scale changes . Though new finds may shift these provisional datings , one definable culture follows another at ...
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... thousand years after the last Ice Age , three or four thousand before the cities of Mesopotamia- the chief food and fiber plants of man had already been domesticated , and some food plants like Camelina , ' gold of pleasure , ' which ...
... thousand years after the last Ice Age , three or four thousand before the cities of Mesopotamia- the chief food and fiber plants of man had already been domesticated , and some food plants like Camelina , ' gold of pleasure , ' which ...
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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