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Book SynopsisTwo of the greatest living authorities on Ice Age art take the reader on a journey across the globe and hundreds of thousands of years into the past to discover the deepest origins of art.
Trade Review'A brilliantly researched, global survey of the very first stirrings of human art, which shows us, with admirable objectivity, that there is a deep-seated urge in all human beings to go beyond mere survival and impose visually creative patterns on our world, making us the first truly artistic animal' - Desmond Morris
Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is Art? • 1. Early Attempts to Tackle the Problem: Theories, Chimps and Children • 2. Finding art in Nature: the first stirrings of an aesthetic sense • 3. Can we see art in the first tools? • 4. All work and no play? Looking at marks on bones and stones • 5. Figuring it out – the first carvings • 6. Jingles and bangles: seeking the origins of music and decorated bodies • 7. First art in the landscape • 8. The writing’s on the wall • 9. The appearance of rock art around the world • Conclusion
