Papers from the session 'The Intellectual and Spiritual Expression of Non-Literate Societies' given at the XVI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011). Contents: Presentation (Emmanuel Anati); 1) Les adaptations humaines et l'expression spirituelle des premiers Hommes anatomiquement modernes a la transition du Paleolithique moyen au Paleolithique superieur (Janusz K. Kozlowski); 2) The Lipari Middle Paleolithic and early navigation in the Mediterranean (Emmanuel Anati); 3) The Paleolithic sanctuary at Har Karkom, Negev desert (Emmanuel Anati); 4) The Karkomian flint industry: the context of the Har Karkom sanctuary at the transition between Middle and Upper Paleolithic (Federico Mailland); 4) Geoglyphs on Har Karkom plateau: witness to the early start of the expression of conceptual ideas during the early Upper Paleolithic (Federico Mailland); 5) Astronomical representations in rock art: some examples of the cognitive and spiritual processes of non-literate people (Fernando Coimbra); 6) Ancient myths and scientific fiction: the representation of big head in the prehistoric art and its recreation in Western culture (Santiago Guimaraes); 7) The pre-contact pueblo Kachina in the American Southwest: its iconography, first appearances and contexts of symbolic meanings (Jessica Joyce Christie); 8) Deer representation in Sierra da Capivara National Park: morphology, syntax and archaeological contexts: a visual analysis (Elaine Ignacio); 9) Indigenous dolls and figurines: where sacred and social worlds merge and the implications for archaeologists (Sharon Moses); 10) Conveying an understanding of the landscape: the rock art of the Tagus and the Guadiana Valleys (Luiz Oosterbeek); 11) The deer figures in Tagus rock art (Sara Garces); 12) The geometric art of the Iberian schist plaques (Cristina Lopes); 13) Anthropozoomorphic figures and other monsters: mythical fantastic figures in Alpine rock art (Umberto Sansoni); 14) Beliefs and Practices Connected with Megalithic Burial Customs in Eastern India (Ranjana Ray); 15) Substrats neolithiques aux arts traditionnels des Balkans (Marcel Otte).

This volume contains papers from a session of the 2006 uispp congress in Lisbon. The contributors ask what we can learn from prehistoric art about cultural change, and what art can convey the ideological and cognitive sphere of prehistoric societies. Essays cover a variety of art forms (rock art, jewellery, lithics, ceramics etc) in mostly European contexts, although including material on the Near East, Egypt and Africa.

This volume is a basic introduction to rock art studies. It marks the starting point of the new methodology for rock art analysis, based on typology and style, first developed by the author at the Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici. This book demonstrates the beginnings of a new discipline, the systematic study of world rock art. This edition is a revised and updated version of Anarti’s classic text, first published in English in 1993. Additions have been made and a major new category of rock art has been included.