New perspectives on prehistoric art/ edited by Günter Berghaus. - Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. - viii, 269 p.: ill.; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-254) and index.

The discovery and study of prehistoric art / Günter Berghaus -- Consciousness, intelligence, and art: a view of the West European Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition / J. David Lewis-Williams -- Hunter-gatherer imagery in aboriginal Australia: interpreting rock art by informed and formal methods / Christopher Chippindale -- Cyclical nucleation and sacred space: rock art at the center / Solveig A. Turpin -- Women in prehistoric art / Camilla Power -- Art in human evolution / Lawrence S. Barham -- Paleoperformance: investigating the human use of caves in the Upper Paleolithic / Yann-Pierre Montelle -- Rock art and rock sites as indicators of prehistoric theater and ritual performances / Jon Nygaard -- European modernism and the arts of prehistory / Roger Cardinal.

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Art, Prehistoric.
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