Deciphering Ancient Minds (ePub)
The Mystery of San Bushman Rock Art
(Sprache: Englisch)
How did prehistoric peoples those living before written records think? Were their modes of thought fundamentally different from ours today? Researchers over the years have certainly believed so. Along with the Aborigines of Australia, the indigenous San...
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How did prehistoric peoples those living before written records think? Were their modes of thought fundamentally different from ours today? Researchers over the years have certainly believed so. Along with the Aborigines of Australia, the indigenous San people of southern Africa among the last hunter-gatherer societies on Earth became iconic representatives of all our distant ancestors, and were viewed either as irrational fantasists or childlike, highly spiritual conservationists. Since the 1960s, a new wave of research among the San and their world-famous rock art has overturned these misconceived ideas. Here, the great authority David Lewis-Williams and his colleague William Challis reveal how analysis of the rock paintings and engravings can be made to yield vital insights into San beliefs and ways of thought. The picture that emerges is very different from past analysis: this art is not a naïve narrative of daily life but rather is imbued with power and religious depth. As this elegantly written, enlightening book so ably demonstrates, the prehistoric mind was in fact as complex and sophisticated as that of contemporary humans.
Autoren-Porträt von David Lewis-Williams, Sam Challis
David Lewis-Williams is Professor Emeritus and Senior Mentor in the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is world-renowned for his lifetime's work on ancient rock art. His many books include 'Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion', 'Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods' (with David Pearce), 'The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art' and 'The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves' (with Jean Clottes).Sam Challis is a rock art specialist at the Rock Art Research Institute, lecturing for the Department of Archaeology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has a doctorate from Oxford University examining the impact of the horse on hunter-gatherers and on their rock art in southern Africa. He has also undertaken expeditions to find and publish Saharan rock art.
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- Autoren: David Lewis-Williams , Sam Challis
- 2012, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0500770476
- ISBN-13: 9780500770474
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.09.2012
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