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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. xi, 378 pages, illustrations, maps; 26 cm. Wattis Symposium Series in Anthropology. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. "This work addresses the distribution of image and symbol encoded in material culture in prehistory. Using analytic methods developed in archaeology and ethnoarchaeology, it explores the differential patterns of the appearance of image-making among Late Pleistocene and Holocene peoples." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Studying ancient visual cultures, by Olga Soffer and Margaret W. Conkey; Paleolithic marks: archaeometric perspectives, by Alan Watchman; New laboratory techniques and their impact on Paleolithic cave art, by Jean Clottes; Paleolithic image making and symboling in Europe and the Middle East: a comparative review, by Alexander Marshack; Substantial acts: from materials to meaning in Upper Paleolithic representation, by Randall White; The power of pictures, by Iain Davidson; Symbolic expressions in later prehistory of the Levant: why are they so few?, by Ofer Bar-Yosef; When the beasts go marchin' out!: the end of Pleistocene art in Cantabrian Spain, by Manual R. Gonza lez Morales; Art of the light and art of the depths, by Jean Clottes; Carving, painting, engraving: problems with the earliest Italian design, by Margherita Mussi and Daniela Zampetti; The mutability of Upper Paleolithic art in Central and Eastern Europe: patterning and significance, by Olga Soffer; Places of art: art and archaeology in context, by Silvia Toma skova ; Archaeological signatures of the social context of rock art production, by Andre e Rosenfeld; Processions and groups: human figures, ritual occasions and social categories in the rock paintings of the Western Cape, South Africa, by John Parkington and Anthony Manhire; Harnessing the brain: vision and shamanism in Upper Paleolithic Western Europe, by J.D. Lewis-Williams; Beyond art and between the caves: thinking about context in the interpretive process, by Margaret W. Conkey. Size: 4to.