The New Encyclopaedia Britannica[1] Propaedia: outline of knowledge and guide to the Britannica.--[2]-[11] Micropaedia: ready reference and index.--[12]-[30] Macropaedia: knowledge in depth. |
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Page 204
onset of the Würm I Stadial (70,000 BP) in western Asia, the bifacial-hand-ax
industries were replaced by flaketool traditions; one of these was an evolved
Levalloisian and another the Mousterian tool industry, in which stone flakes were
...
onset of the Würm I Stadial (70,000 BP) in western Asia, the bifacial-hand-ax
industries were replaced by flaketool traditions; one of these was an evolved
Levalloisian and another the Mousterian tool industry, in which stone flakes were
...
Page 896
known with certainty, but the biblical tradition of their origin in a clan that migrated
from Mesopotamia to Canaan (Palestine) early in the 2nd millennium BCE has
analogues in what is known of the movements of other groups in that area and ...
known with certainty, but the biblical tradition of their origin in a clan that migrated
from Mesopotamia to Canaan (Palestine) early in the 2nd millennium BCE has
analogues in what is known of the movements of other groups in that area and ...
Page 976
Bright assumes that it was intended as a history concerned to record the early
past, while Noth assumes that its thematic traditions were intended to define and
celebrate the identity of the later Israel and hence do not constitute a usable ...
Bright assumes that it was intended as a history concerned to record the early
past, while Noth assumes that its thematic traditions were intended to define and
celebrate the identity of the later Israel and hence do not constitute a usable ...
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| Title | The New Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| Author | Encyclopaedia Britannica Publishers, Inc. Staff |
| Contributor | Robert M. Hutchins |
| Edition | 15, illustrated |
| Publisher | Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1974 |
| ISBN | 0852292902, 9780852292907 |
| Length | 934 pages |
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