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... paleolithic hunt . In both cases , fortitude in pursuit , un- flinching ... art may represent the hunter's instinctual attempt to counterbalance the ... paleolithic man : he was confronted by the fact of death , not at infrequent ...
... paleolithic hunt . In both cases , fortitude in pursuit , un- flinching ... art may represent the hunter's instinctual attempt to counterbalance the ... paleolithic man : he was confronted by the fact of death , not at infrequent ...
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... paleolithic ritual and art . Hunting under paleolithic conditions was not a hit - or - miss scramble for food : it required forethought , a studious , care- fully rehearsed strategy , intimate knowledge , graphically conveyable , of the ...
... paleolithic ritual and art . Hunting under paleolithic conditions was not a hit - or - miss scramble for food : it required forethought , a studious , care- fully rehearsed strategy , intimate knowledge , graphically conveyable , of the ...
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... Paleolithic Settle- ment . In Antiquity : September 1956 . Evidence of a paleolithic settlement , dated 30,000 years ... art Rupestre Paléolithique . Paris : 1962 . Judicious critique of past interpretations of paleolithic art , showing ...
... Paleolithic Settle- ment . In Antiquity : September 1956 . Evidence of a paleolithic settlement , dated 30,000 years ... art Rupestre Paléolithique . Paris : 1962 . Judicious critique of past interpretations of paleolithic art , showing ...
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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 ancestors ancient animal Aurignacian became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation domestication dream earliest early man's economy economy of abundance effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods Homo sapiens human development hunter hunting images institution interpretation Iron Age king labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once organization original paintings paleolithic paleolithic art performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production rational religion ritual royal sacred sacrifice sexual significant social species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical Technics and Civilization thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York