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BOOK III. THE GREEKS
CHAPTER V
the dawn of european civilization and the rise
op the eastern mediterranean world
Section 21. The Dawn of Civilization in Europe
We have already studied the life of earliest man in Europe, .192. Stone
where we followed his progress step by step through some fifty ^the r°Pe
^ousand years (Sections 1-4; reread §§16-22). At that point orient
^e were obliged to leave him and to pass over from Europe
to the Orient, to watch there the birth and growth of civfli-
Zatbn, while all Europe remained in the barbarism of the
Late Stone Age.
k Note. The above drawing shows us the upper part of a stone vase carved
y a Cretan sculptor. The lower part is lost. The scene depicts a procession of
retan peasants with wooden pitchforks over their shoulders. Among them is a
. "or"s of youths with wide-open mouths, lustily singing a harvest song, doubtless
* honor of the great Earth Mother, to whom the peasants believed they owed
J?e fertility of the earth. The music is led by a priest with head shaven after the
Syptian manner, and he carries upraised before his face a sistrum, a musical
^ttle which came from Egypt. The work is so wonderfully carved that we seem
0 the forward motion of the procession.
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CHAPTER V
the dawn of european civilization and the rise
op the eastern mediterranean world
Section 21. The Dawn of Civilization in Europe
We have already studied the life of earliest man in Europe, .192. Stone
where we followed his progress step by step through some fifty ^the r°Pe
^ousand years (Sections 1-4; reread §§16-22). At that point orient
^e were obliged to leave him and to pass over from Europe
to the Orient, to watch there the birth and growth of civfli-
Zatbn, while all Europe remained in the barbarism of the
Late Stone Age.
k Note. The above drawing shows us the upper part of a stone vase carved
y a Cretan sculptor. The lower part is lost. The scene depicts a procession of
retan peasants with wooden pitchforks over their shoulders. Among them is a
. "or"s of youths with wide-open mouths, lustily singing a harvest song, doubtless
* honor of the great Earth Mother, to whom the peasants believed they owed
J?e fertility of the earth. The music is led by a priest with head shaven after the
Syptian manner, and he carries upraised before his face a sistrum, a musical
^ttle which came from Egypt. The work is so wonderfully carved that we seem
0 the forward motion of the procession.
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