A Cosmos in Stone
Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art
J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in his evolving journey to understand these images painted on stone. He describes the development of technical methods of interpreting rock paintings of the 1970s, shows how a growing understanding of San mythology, cosmology, and ethnography helped decode the complex paintings, and traces the development of neuropsychological models for understanding the relationship between belief systems and rock art. The author then applies his theories to the famous rock paintings of prehistoric Western Europe…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7591-1671-9
- EAN: 9780759116719
- Produktnummer: 22948841
- Verlag: AltaMira Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'253 KB
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