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Consciousness and the Origins of Art
The art created in the caves of western Europe in the Ice Age provokes awe and wonder. What do these symbols on the walls of Lascaux and Altamira, tel...
consciousness and the origins of art : with 94 illustrations, 27 in colour
The breathtakingly beautiful art created deep inside the caves of western Europe has the power to dazzle even the most jaded observers....
The Mystery of San Bushman Rock Art
How did prehistoric peoples those living before written records think? Were their modes of thought fundamentally different from ours today? Researcher...
Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods
Now in compact paperback, a compelling examination of how brain structure and cultural context interacted in the Neolithic period, 10,000 years ago, t...
Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art
J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in h...
The universality of shamanistic power and practice among today's hunter-gatherers - along with the similarity of rock art found in varied sites around...
Roots, Expression, and Social Consequences
At the intersection between western culture and Africa, we find the San people of the Kalahari desert. Once called Bushmen, the San have survived many...
The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion
At once polemical, insightful and thought-provoking, Conceiving God is essential reading for all those interested in the origins of religious thought,...
San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. Ther...
Understanding Bushman Rock Art
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An exploration of how brain structure and cultural systems developed throughout the Neolithic period 10,000 years ago explains how unique life pattern...
The Social Context of a Hunter-Gatherer Ritual
Providing insight into an image-making process that became extinct at the end of the nineteenth-century, this book shows that, far from being trivial,...
Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves
A book on the ancient rock art of the San -- the story behind the research. Ways of discovering rock art. The aesthetic approach. The narrative approa...
The Documentary Paintings of Stephen Townley Bassett
Twenty-fifth Raymond Dart Lecture Delivered 6 October 1987
Symbolic Meanings in Southern San Rock Paintings
Rock Art of the Drakensberg
This title takes us on an expedition into the lost valleys and up the silent rock shelter of the Drakensberg....
Understanding San Rock Art
This text draws on records of San beliefs which were recorded verbatim during the 1870s, as well as on research done with the living Kalahari San, to ...
Images of San Rock Art
San-Bushman Folklore in Global Context
The Desert Turned to Glass
In celebration of the planetarium: an epic meditation on origins, endings and infinity Commemorating the centenary of the planetarium as an architectu...
A Rock Art Fieldguide
Designed as a handy fieldguide for rock art enthusiasts, this book covers the most important and accessible rock art sites in South Africa open to vis...
A Changing Way of Life
The subject matter of this title has proved very popular in the past, as have other books in this series, with their accent on full-colour photography...
The Social Context of a Hunter-gatherer Ritual
"Worldwide, rock art images are often opaque to modern viewers. This book is based on authentic 1870s verbatim records of southern San beliefs, ritual...
An Interpretation of the Linton Rock Paintings