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Agency, art and altered consciousness: a motif in French (Quercy) Upper Palaeolithic parietal art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

J.D. Lewis-Williams
J.D. Lewis-Williams*
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Rock Art Research Centre, Department of Archaeology, University of the Witwatersrand, PO Wits 2050, South Africa
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Abstract

Is the meaning of prehistoric art beyond recovery — especially the meaning of early art in deep caves, a remote and strange location which itself suggests some out-of-the-ordinary purpose? David Lewis-Williams has been extending his explorations of meaning in later southern African rock-art to the famous enigma of the European Palaeolithic, here in the particulars of a single distinctive motif.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 274 , December 1997 , pp. 810 - 830
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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