Marshack, Alexander
The roots of civilization The cognitive beginnings of man's first art, symbol and notation Alexander Marshack - New York McGraw-Hill Book Company 1972 - 413 p.
Part I: Notation: the search -- The search begins -- A bit of bone -- The mesolithic bone: ishango -- Tracking the hunter, on paper -- Notation: the bones -- Part II: Background to the story -- The history of prehistory. an aside -- Part III: Notation and art, the research and the ideas -- Notation: early and late -- Time-factored thought -- Vault of the sky -- The bone of the eagle -- Image of the world: time-factored art -- Time factored death -- Sex and the goddess -- Part IV: The story continued -- The step toward history -- Postscript -- Acknowledgements -- Collections of materials examined -- Bibliography -- Sites and caves on map of ice age europe -- List of illustrations -- Index
38300
070405352
Art--Prehistoric.
Paleolithic period.
913.0312 Mar 29
The roots of civilization The cognitive beginnings of man's first art, symbol and notation Alexander Marshack - New York McGraw-Hill Book Company 1972 - 413 p.
Part I: Notation: the search -- The search begins -- A bit of bone -- The mesolithic bone: ishango -- Tracking the hunter, on paper -- Notation: the bones -- Part II: Background to the story -- The history of prehistory. an aside -- Part III: Notation and art, the research and the ideas -- Notation: early and late -- Time-factored thought -- Vault of the sky -- The bone of the eagle -- Image of the world: time-factored art -- Time factored death -- Sex and the goddess -- Part IV: The story continued -- The step toward history -- Postscript -- Acknowledgements -- Collections of materials examined -- Bibliography -- Sites and caves on map of ice age europe -- List of illustrations -- Index
38300
070405352
Art--Prehistoric.
Paleolithic period.
913.0312 Mar 29