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Page 159
... village at least would spring up again , like fireweed , in the ruins . The secret of this social and technological success was twofold . Every member of the community had access to the entire cultural heritage , and could ordinarily ...
... village at least would spring up again , like fireweed , in the ruins . The secret of this social and technological success was twofold . Every member of the community had access to the entire cultural heritage , and could ordinarily ...
Page 164
... village and the family to the vertical plane of a whole society . The new community formed a hierarchic structure , a social pyramid , which from base to pinnacle included many families , many villages , many oc- cupations , often many ...
... village and the family to the vertical plane of a whole society . The new community formed a hierarchic structure , a social pyramid , which from base to pinnacle included many families , many villages , many oc- cupations , often many ...
Page 233
... village had lost through the growth of larger political organizations . This fact accounts not alone for the miraculous survival of the Jews through endless centuries of persecution , but for their worldwide distribu- tion . Even more ...
... village had lost through the growth of larger political organizations . This fact accounts not alone for the miraculous survival of the Jews through endless centuries of persecution , but for their worldwide distribu- tion . Even more ...
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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