Cave Paintings And The Human Spirit by David S. Whitley
The Origin of Creativity and Belief
A synthesis of archaeology, ethnography, and neuroscience that argues Paleolithic cave art emerged from shamanic rituals and altered states of consciousness, marking the origins of religion and symbolic thought. It interprets recurring motifs as universal trance-induced visions, reexamines famed caves as sacred spaces rather than hunting records, and considers how these images reveal the evolution of creativity, belief, and the human mind.
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- 2009
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