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Author Bahn, Paul G.

Title The Cambridge illustrated history of prehistoric art / by Paul G. Bahn
Published Cambridge, U.K. : New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Description xxxii, 302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Series Cambridge illustrated history
Cambridge illustrated history.
Contents Foreword / Desmond Morris -- 1. The 'Discovery' of Prehistoric Art -- 2. The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Prehistoric Art Comes into its Own -- 3. Body Art -- 4. Objets d'Art -- 5. Art on Rocks and Walls -- 6. The Appliance of Science -- 7. Matters of the Body: Literal Interpretations of Prehistoric Art -- 8. Matters of the Mind: Symbolic Interpretations of Prehistoric Art -- 9. Current Threats and Future Prospects -- Map of Prehistoric Art Sites
Summary How prehistoric art was discovered by the world of scholarship, what it consists of, and how it can shed light on the lives of our ancestors
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-293) and index
Subject Art, Prehistoric -- Australia.
Art, Prehistoric.
LC no. 96051099
ISBN 0521454735
Other Titles Prehistoric art
Prehistoric art