This volume contains papers from a session of the 2006 uispp congress in Lisbon. The contributors ask what we can learn from prehistoric art about cultural change, and what art can convey the ideological and cognitive sphere of prehistoric societies. Essays cover a variety of art forms (rock art, jewellery, lithics, ceramics etc) in mostly European contexts, although including material on the Near East, Egypt and Africa.

Papers from the session 'The Intellectual and Spiritual Expression of Non-Literate Societies' given at the XVI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011). Contents: Presentation (Emmanuel Anati); 1) Les adaptations humaines et l'expression spirituelle des premiers Hommes anatomiquement modernes a la transition du Paleolithique moyen au Paleolithique superieur (Janusz K. Kozlowski); 2) The Lipari Middle Paleolithic and early navigation in the Mediterranean (Emmanuel Anati); 3) The Paleolithic sanctuary at Har...