Making Scenes: Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art

Making Scenes: Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art
ISBN-10
1789209218
ISBN-13
9781789209211
Series
Making Scenes
Category
Social Science
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
2021-04-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Authors
Iain Davidson, April Nowell

Description

Dating back to at least 50,000 years ago, rock art is one of the oldest forms of human symbolic expression. Geographically, it spans all the continents on Earth. Scenes are common in some rock art, and recent work suggests that there are some hints of expression that looks like some of the conventions of western scenic art. In this unique volume examining the nature of scenes in rock art, researchers examine what defines a scene, what are the necessary elements of a scene, and what can the evolutionary history tell us about storytelling, sequential memory, and cognitive evolution among ancient and living cultures?

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