Screen LibraryThe nature of Paleolithic art
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| Published: |
University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago |
| Publication Dates: | c2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 507 p.: ill., maps ; 27 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0226311260 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226311265 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | K869 |
| CLC: |
K869 K861.11 J110.92 |
| Call Number: | K869/G984 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-496) and index. Drawn from life -- Paleolithic artists as naturalists -- Tracking down the Pleistocene artists: the unemphasized role of children -- Testosterone events and Paleolithic imagery -- The art of hunting large mammals -- Full-figured women--in ivory and in life -- The evolution of art behavior in the Paleolithic -- Bands to tribes: the end of the Pleistocene and the extinguishing of Paleolithic art -- Throwing the bones: Paleolithic art and the evolution of the supernatural. |