Archaeological and anthropological investigations of depictions seldom extend beyond a single culture or a single geographical location, although there is a powerful factor common to all depictions, the factor of human perception. In this volume an attempt is made to show how this factor affects both creation and recognition of depictions, how, in common with everyday vision of the environment,typical contoursare derived and used, not merely to depict individually readily recognisable models, but also how by concatenation they lead to such a splendid figure as AustralianKakaducrocodiles, or...