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... transform himself . This feat of self - transformation was accompanied by bodily changes , attested by fragments of surviving skeletons : but the cultural projection of man's selves was far more rapid , since man's prolonged biological ...
... transform himself . This feat of self - transformation was accompanied by bodily changes , attested by fragments of surviving skeletons : but the cultural projection of man's selves was far more rapid , since man's prolonged biological ...
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... transformation of the habitat , the massive expressions in art and ceremonial , that actually took place . That demanded the cooperation , or at least the awed submission and pas- sive consent , of the entire community . The agency that ...
... transformation of the habitat , the massive expressions in art and ceremonial , that actually took place . That demanded the cooperation , or at least the awed submission and pas- sive consent , of the entire community . The agency that ...
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... Transformations , organic , 31 " Transformations of Man , Transportation , disruption The , ' 261 of , [ 24 ] ... transformation of , 37 Vocal warnings , birds ' use of , 84 341 Voltaire , 167 Vulvas , 122 Waddington , C. H. , 38 ...
... Transformations , organic , 31 " Transformations of Man , Transportation , disruption The , ' 261 of , [ 24 ] ... transformation of , 37 Vocal warnings , birds ' use of , 84 341 Voltaire , 167 Vulvas , 122 Waddington , C. H. , 38 ...
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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