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Cross-Modality Information Transfer: A Hypothesis about the Relationship among Prehistoric Cave Paintings, Symbolic Thinking, and the Emergence of Language

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Early modern humans developed mental capabilities that were immeasurably greater than those of non-human primates. We see this in the rapid innovation in tool making, the development of complex language, and the creation of sophisticated art forms, none ...
Shigeru Miyagawa   +3 more
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Faktor Penyebab Nihilnya Gambar Cadas Prasejarah Di Kawasan Gunung Sewu, Jawa

open access: yesPubawidya: Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengembangan Arkeologi, 2020
In late Pleistocene to Early Holocene, the form of cultures were cave dwellings accompanied by the development of Mesolithic technology, food gathering, as well as spiritual needs in the form of burials and works of art.
indah asikin nurani   +5 more
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Integration of Remote-Sensing Techniques for the Preventive Conservation of Paleolithic Cave Art in the Karst of the Altamira Cave

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2023
Rock art offers traces of our most remote past and was made with mineral and organic substances in shelters, walls, or the ceilings of caves. As it is notably fragile, it is fortunate that some instances remain intact—but a variety of natural and ...
Vicente Bayarri   +6 more
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Autism, the Integrations of 'Difference' and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
It is proposed here that the archaeological evidence for the emergence of 'modern behaviour' (160,000-40,000 bp) can best be explained as the rise of cognitive variation within populations through social mechanisms for integrating 'different minds ...
Spikins, Penny
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Boyhood, initiation, homosexual behaviour and homosexuality in European Palaeolithic and Mesolithic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this article, boyhood in European Pleistocene is decribed. After the introduction, it describes the terms "child" and "boy". In the section about the first people in Europe I have included the first people in Greece and Italy as well because most ...
Adrian van Mechelen
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Fresco Paintings of Southwest Crimea Cave Churches According to Igor Grabar

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2020
Introduction. Today, the remains of fresco paintings are preserved in six cave churches of Taurica: the temple of the Southern Monastery (Mangup); church in the field of Kielse-Tubu (district of Mangup); the temple of the Assumption and the Three ...
Yuriy M. Mogarichev, Alena S. Ergina
doaj   +1 more source

Roof Fall Cave, Cania Gorge: Site report [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
This site report presents a description of archaeological investigations undertaken at Roof Fall Cave, an occupied rockshelter and art site located at Cania Gorge, eastern Central Queensland.
Brian, Deborah   +5 more
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Transferts méthodologiques 3D appliqués à l’étude de l’art paléolithique : une nouvelle dimension pour les relevés d’art préhistorique

open access: yesIn Situ, 2019
All studies concerning Palaeolithic art (parietal or movable art) are based on analytical recordings of the kind now practiced for over a century. This analytical approach is indispensable for our understanding of the thought processes of prehistoric ...
Oscar Fuentes   +2 more
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The Cave of Isturitz (West Pyrenees, France): One Century of Research in Paleolithic Parietal Art

open access: yesArts, 2013
The cave of Isturitz is one of the most important archaeological sites of the prehistory of Western Europe. Human occupations followed each other in the cavity from at least the Middle Paleolithic to the Roman age.
Christian Normand   +4 more
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Art and Shamanism: From Cave Painting to the White Cube

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Art and shamanism are often represented as timeless, universal features of human experience, with an apparently immutable relationship. Shamanism is frequently held to represent the origin of religion and shamans are characterized as the first artists ...
Robert J. Wallis
doaj   +1 more source

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