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The cave and the cathedral : how a real-life Indiana Jones and a renegade scholar decoded the ancient art of man / Amir D. Aczel.
Penn Museum Library GN771 .A28 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aczel, Amir D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paleolithic period.
- Magdalenian culture.
- Cave paintings.
- Painting, Prehistoric.
- Niaux Cave (France).
- Lascaux Cave (France).
- Chauvet Cave (France).
- Antiquities, Prehistoric.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2009]
- Summary:
- Join researcher and scientist Amir D. Aczel on a time-traveling journey through the past and discover what the ancient caves of France and Spain may reveal about the origin of language, art, and human thought as he illuminates one of the greatest mysteries in anthropology.
- Contents:
- The adventure of Niaux
- The greatest mystery
- The Neanderthal enigma
- The roots of language
- Abbé Breuil
- Font-de-Gaume and Combarelles
- The tale of a missing dog
- The sign of the bull and the legend of the minotaur
- Rouffignac and Pech Merle
- The discovery of Lascaux
- The enigma of the pit
- The groundbreaking work of Annette Laming-Emperaire
- Prehistoric objets d'art
- The sign of the hand
- The legend of the white lady
- Shamans of the tundra
- Stonehenge and signs in the sky
- The Mediterranean, Australia, and Patagonia
- Leroi-Gourhan's theory
- The relationship between signs and animals
- The Chauvet cave.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780470373538
- 0470373539
- OCLC:
- 299698306
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