The Birth of Art & Death, Fifth Installment: Prologue to the Neolithic
The Palestinian Mythogenetic zone
Whereas Paleolithic technology is catastrophic—based upon speed and impact, of abrupt discontinuities and sudden tension-filled encounters—the world of agriculture is more uniformitarian, based upon a slow, inevitable grinding down of all things: for it grinds not only the grains and grasses but also teeth and bones, wh…