Agency, art, and altered consciousness: a motif in French (Quercy) Upper Palaeolithic parietal art

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Publication Date

January 2015

Publication Title

Antiquity: A review of World Archaeology

Volume Number

71

Issue Number

274

Abstract

Is the meaning of prehistoric art beyond recovery — especially the meaning of early art in deep caves, a remote and strange location which itself suggests some out-of-the-ordinary purpose? David Lewis-Williams has been extending his explorations of meaning in later southern African rock-art to the famous enigma of the European Palaeolithic, here in the particulars of a single distinctive motif.

Geographic Subject

Quercy, France

Document Type

Article

Language

English

Identifier

SFS0067303_00001

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