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Early Rock Art of the American West - The Geometric Enigma (Paperback) Loot Price: R889
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Early Rock Art of the American West - The Geometric Enigma (Paperback): Ekkehart Malotki, Ellen Dissanayake

Early Rock Art of the American West - The Geometric Enigma (Paperback)

Ekkehart Malotki, Ellen Dissanayake

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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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Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 2018
Authors: Ekkehart Malotki • Ellen Dissanayake
Dimensions: 254 x 229 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 978-0-295-74361-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Pre-history
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > General
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > General
Books > History > American history > General
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LSN: 0-295-74361-1
Barcode: 9780295743615

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