The Mind in the Cave

David Lewis-WilliamsThames & Hudson • ISBN-13 978‑0500284650

The Mind in the Cave coverThe Mind in the Cave cover

The Mind in the Cave

David Lewis-WilliamsThames & Hudson

ISBN-10: 1696318025 · ISBN-13: 978‑0500284650 · 2004

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What does the breathtakingly beautiful art depicted on the walls of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, tell us about the nature of the ancestral mind? How did these images spring, seemingly from nowhere into the human story? The Mind in the Cave puts forward the most plausible explanation yet proposed for the origins of image-making and art. This is a masterful piece of detective work, casting light on the darkest mysteries of our earliest ancestors and on the nature of our own consciousness and experience.

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Publisher: Thames & Hudson
April 2004
Pages: 320Language: EnglishPrinted in: United States

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Author: David Lewis-Williams

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Inferred: AnthropologyInferred: ArchaeologyInferred: Art HistoryInferred: Cognitive ScienceInferred: Prehistoric ArtInferred: Paleolithic ArtInferred: ShamanismInferred: Cognitive ArchaeologyInferred: Symbolic Thought

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