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Early Rock Art of the American West
- The Geometric Enigma
Engelsk Paperback
Early Rock Art of the American West
- The Geometric Enigma
Engelsk Paperback

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A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEThe earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until Early Rock Art in the American West, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety. Why did they precede representational marks? What is known about their origins and functions? Why and how did humans begin to make marks, and what does this practice tell us about the early human mind?With some two hundred striking color images and discussions of chronology, dating, sites, and styles, this pioneering investigation of abstract geometrics on stone (as well as bone, ivory, and shell) explores its wide-ranging subject from the perspectives of ethology, evolutionary biology, cognitive archaeology, and the psychology of artmaking. The authors' unique approach instills a greater respect for a largely unknown and underappreciated form of paleoart, suggesting that before humans became Homo symbolicus or even Homo religiosus, they were mark-makers - Homo aestheticus.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9780295743615
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0295743611
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Udg. Dato:
1 jul 2018
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
266mm
Højde:
230mm
Forlag:
University of Washington Press
Oplagsdato:
1 jul 2018
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