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Early Rock Art of the American West - The Geometric Enigma (Paperback)
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Early Rock Art of the American West - The Geometric Enigma (Paperback)
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A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE The earliest rock art - in the
Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until Early Rock
Art in the American West, however, no book-length study has been
devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and
the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and
variety. Why did they precede representational marks? What is known
about their origins and functions? Why and how did humans begin to
make marks, and what does this practice tell us about the early
human mind? With some two hundred striking color images and
discussions of chronology, dating, sites, and styles, this
pioneering investigation of abstract geometrics on stone (as well
as bone, ivory, and shell) explores its wide-ranging subject from
the perspectives of ethology, evolutionary biology, cognitive
archaeology, and the psychology of artmaking. The authors' unique
approach instills a greater respect for a largely unknown and
underappreciated form of paleoart, suggesting that before humans
became Homo symbolicus or even Homo religiosus, they were
mark-makers - Homo aestheticus.
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