LEADER 02889nam 22005774a 450 001 9910456679103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-40915-8 010 $a9786612409158 010 $a0-313-05957-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000000000235 035 $a(EBL)491653 035 $a(OCoLC)61145302 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000440144 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11317984 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000440144 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10470775 035 $a(PQKB)11382003 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC491653 035 $a(PPN)183663349 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL491653 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10349392 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL240915 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000000235 100 $a20030721d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aNew perspectives on prehistoric art$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Gu?nter Berghaus 210 $aWestport, Conn. $cPraeger$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-275-97813-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-254) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Prehistory 327 $aSelective BibliographyIndex; About the Contributors 330 $aFollowing 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 funct 606 $aArt, Prehistoric 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArt, Prehistoric. 676 $a709/.01 701 $aBerghaus$b Gu?nter$f1953-$0885464 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456679103321 996 $aNew perspectives on prehistoric art$91977245 997 $aUNINA