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Art and Shamanism: From Cave Painting to the White Cube

Religions, 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
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Historiografía y novedades del arte mueble Paleolítico en la Peninsula Ibérica

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 1997
Este trabajo pretende resumir los numerosos hallazgos realizados en el arte mobiliar paleolítico de la Península Ibérica en los últimos años, así como recoger la abundante bibliografía que se ha generado.
Mario Menéndez Fernández
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Palaeolithic art: Old masters, early cultures [PDF]

Nature, 2016
Jill Cook examines archaeologist Jean Clottes's theories about what motivated Ice Age artists.
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125 years of exploration and research at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK) 125 ans d'exploration et de recherches à Gough's Cave (Somerset, Royaume‐Uni)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello, Mark D. Lewis, Simon A. Parfitt   +2 more
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Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2017

Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 2017
‘Unravelling the Palaeolithic’ brings together research on all aspects of human evolution. This year’s conference was held at the University of Liverpool on the 11th and 12th February 2017, and included a diverse selection of papers on subjects including
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The role of the Eastern Mediterranean in human evolution: recent results from Greece Le rôle du Bassin méditerranéen oriental dans l’évolution humaine : résultats récents en Grèce

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
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La figura humana femenina en el arte parietal paleolítico del sur peninsular : a propósito de las "Venus Egabrenses"

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 2009
La revisión de que han sido objeto las manifestaciones gráficas paleolíticas de la cueva de la Ermita del Calvario, en Cabra (Córdoba), ha venido a confirmar al sur de la Península Ibérica como uno de los espacios más interesantes en cuanto sus ...
Rafael Maura Mijares, Juan Carlos Vera Rodríguez, Pedro Cantalejo Duarte, Antonio Moreno Rosas, Antonio Aranda Cruces   +4 more
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Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski, Amanuel Beyin, Justin Pargeter   +2 more
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Artists on the edge of the world: An integrated approach to the study of Magdalenian engraved stone plaquettes from Jersey (Channel Islands).

PLoS ONE, 2020
The Upper Palaeolithic is characterised by the appearance of iconographic expressions most often depicting animals, including anthropomorphic forms, and geometric signs.
Silvia M Bello, Edward Blinkhorn, Andrew Needham, Martin Bates, Sarah Duffy, Aimée Little, Matt Pope, Beccy Scott, Andrew Shaw, Mark D Welch, Tim Kinnaird, Lisa Millar, Ruth Robinson, Chantal Conneller   +13 more
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Lugar de paso, memorias antiguas. El yacimiento del Arroyo de las Almas (La Fregeneda, Salamanca) y su arte rupestre Paleolítico al aire libre = Place of Passage, Ancient Memories. The Site of Arroyo de las Almas (La Fregeneda, Salamanca) and its Open-Air Palaeolithic Rock Art

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 2020
El yacimiento rupestre al aire libre del Arroyo de las Almas, en las inmediaciones del encuentro entre los ríos Águeda y Duero, presenta un conjunto de 600 motivos grabados, con una larga diacronía desde el Paleolítico Superior hasta la Edad ...
Mario Reis, Carlos Vázquez Marcos
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