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Paul G. Bahn offers a richly illustrated assessment of prehistoric rock artwork and cave artwork from around the globe. Summarizing the new advances in our figuring out of this impressive visible checklist, he discusses new discoveries, new ways to recording and interpretation, and present difficulties in conservation. Bahn focuses particularly on present concerns within the interpretation of rock paintings, particularly the 'shamanic' interpretation that has been influential in recent times and that he refutes. This ebook is predicated at the Rhind Lectures that the writer added for the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 2006.

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