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Image and imagination : a global prehistory of figurative representation / edited by Colin Renfrew & Iain Morley
Bib ID 4492643
Format BookBook
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Description Cambridge : Oakville, CT : McDonald Institute of Archeological Research, University of Cambridge ; Distributed by Oxbow Books, c2007 
xxii, 346 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm. 
ISBN 9781902937489  1902937481 
Series

McDonald Institute monographs, 1363-1349

Full contents
  • Material beginnings : an introduction to Image and imagination / Iain Morley
  • Representing the global record
  • The earliest imagery around the globe / Paul G. Bahn
  • Mountains and miniatures : representing humans in Neolithic Europe 5000-2000 BC / Chris Scarre
  • Modes of explanation for prehistoric imagery : juggling universalist, historicist, and contextualist approaches in the study of early figurines / Richard G. Lesure
  • Avenues of interpretation
  • Art, language and the evolution of spirituality / Robert Layton
  • Upper Palaeolithic anthropomorph images of northern Eurasia / Jiří A. Svoboda
  • New questions of old hands : outlines of human representation in the Palaeolithic / Iain Morley
  • Images of animality : hybrid bodies and mimesis in early prehistoric art / Dušan Borić
 
Notes

Proceedings of the symposim, entitled 'Image and imagination: material beginnings' at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge, 13-17 September 2005.

"This volume is published as part of the 'Roots of Spirituality' project funded by the John Templeton Foundation at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects Art, Prehistoric - Congresses.  |  Art, Primitive - Congresses.  |  Archaeology - Philosophy - Congresses.
Other authors/contributors Renfrew, Colin, 1937-  |  Morley, Iain, 1975-  |  Templeton Foundation  |  McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

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