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The Mind in the Cave

Consciousness and the Origins of Art
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What does the breathtakingly beautiful art depicted on the walls of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, tell us about the nature of the ancestral mind? How did these images spring, seemingly from nowhere into the human story? The Mind in the Cave puts forward the most plausible explanation yet proposed for the origins of image-making and art. This is a masterful piece of detective work, casting light on the darkest mysteries of our earliest ancestors and on the nature of our own consciousness and experience.

Author Biography:

David Lewis-Williams is Professor Emeritus and Senior Mentor in the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg. Among his books are The Mind in the Cave, Inside the Neolithic Mind (with David Pearce) and The Shamans of Prehistory (with Jean Clottes).
Release date Australia
April 5th, 2004
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  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
67 Illustrations, black and white; 27 Illustrations, color
Pages
320
Dimensions
158x235x31
ISBN-13
9780500284650
Product ID
1959841

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