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Palaeoart of the Ice Age

By Bednarik, Robert G.

Palaeoart of the Ice Age

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The many hundreds of books and thousands of academic papers on the topic of Pleistocene (Ice Age) art are limited in their approach because they deal only with the early art of southwestern Europe. This is the first book that attempts a comprehensive synthesis of the known Pleistocene palaeoart of six continents, a phenomenon that is in fact more numerous and older in other continents. The book contemplates the origins of art in a balanced manner, based on reality rather than fantasies about cultural primacy. Its key findings challenge most previous perceptions in this field and literally re-write the discipline. Despite the eclectic format and its high academic standards, the book addresses the non-specialist and the specialist reader. It presents a panorama of the rich history of palaeoart, stretching back more than twenty times as long in time as the cave art of France and Spain. This abundance of evidence is harnessed in presenting a new hypothesis of how early humans began to form and express constructs of reality and thus created the ideational world they existed in. It explains how art-producing behaviour began and the origins of how humans relate to the world consciously.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
220
Release Date:
2025-08-26
Publication Date:
2025-08-26
Publisher:
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
6208449324
ISBN13:
9786208449322
Weight:
346 g
Height:
150 cm
Width:
220 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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