02889nam 22005774a 450 991045667910332120200520144314.01-282-40915-897866124091580-313-05957-8(CKB)2550000000000235(EBL)491653(OCoLC)61145302(SSID)ssj0000440144(PQKBManifestationID)11317984(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000440144(PQKBWorkID)10470775(PQKB)11382003(MiAaPQ)EBC491653(PPN)183663349(Au-PeEL)EBL491653(CaPaEBR)ebr10349392(CaONFJC)MIL240915(EXLCZ)99255000000000023520030721d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNew perspectives on prehistoric art[electronic resource] /edited by Günter BerghausWestport, Conn. Praeger20041 online resource (278 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-275-97813-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-254) and index.Contents; Preface; The Discovery and Study of Prehistoric Art; Consciousness, Intelligence, and Art: A View of the West European Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition; Hunter-Gatherer Imagery in Aboriginal Australia: Interpreting Rock Art by Informed and Formal Methods; Cyclical Nucleation and Sacred Space: Rock Art at the Center; Women in Prehistoric Art; Art in Human Evolution; Paleoperformance: Investigating the Human Use of Caves in the Upper Paleolithic; Rock Art and Rock Sites as Indicators of Prehistoric Theater and Ritual Performances; European Modernism and the Arts of PrehistorySelective BibliographyIndex; About the ContributorsFollowing the discovery of Franco-Caribbean cave art in the nineteenth century, standard interpretations of these works usually revolved around hunting, magic, and fertility cults. Orthodox positions such as these have weighed heavily on later generations of art historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, even those whose views dissented from those of their predecessors. In the last few decades, however, new approaches to cave art, often based on discoveries made in Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and the Arctic region, have produced new insights into possible meanings and functArt, PrehistoricElectronic books.Art, Prehistoric.709/.01Berghaus Günter1953-885464MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456679103321New perspectives on prehistoric art1977245UNINA