The Dawn of Belief: Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780816513369 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 280 str.

D. Bruce Dickson

Opis

Based on the premises that all members of Homo sapiens sapiens share basically similar psychological processes and capabilities and that human culture is patterned, the author uses ethnographic analogy, inference from material patterns, and formal analysis to find in prehistoric imagery clues to the cosmology that lay behind them. The resulting book is an intriguing speculation on the nature of paleolithic religion, offering scholars a valuable synthesis of anthropological, archaeological, and sociological research, and general readers an accessible account of how our forebears may have regarded the unknown.