Becoming Human: Innovation in Prehistoric Material and Spiritual Culture Book

Paperback. Pub Date: 2009 Pages: 200 Publisher: Camidge. University Press The Upper Palaeolithic era of Europe has Left an abundance of Evidence for symbolic activities such as direct representations of animals and other features of the natural world. Personal The Adornments. and elaborate burials. as well as other vestiges that are more abstract and cryptic. These behaviours are also exhibited by populations throughout the world. from the prehistoric period through to the present day. How can we interpret these activities What do they tell us about the beliefs and priorities of the people who carried them out How do these behaviours relate to ideologies. cosmology. and understanding of the world What can they tell us about the emergence of ritual and religious thought And how do the activities of humans in prehistoric Europe compare with those of their predecessors there an...Read More