6 quotes
Next to the discovery of the Turkana boy, the visit to Lascaux ranks as one of the great moments of my life.
Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)
Where Breuil has seen chaos—or at least, randomness—in wall art, Leroi-Gourhan sought and found order.
Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)
The question... is whether Upper Paleolithic art bears the telltale signs of Lewis-Williams' three stage neuropsychological model, and could thus be shamanistic art.
Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)
The first major discovery of prehistoric art was the Spanish cave of Altamira, which, like Lascaux, is one of the most spectacular examples of Upper Paleolithic art yet known.
Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)
Because the art of Africa was on rock shelters, not deep in caves, as in Europe, the ravages of time have eroded most of a rich expression. What we now see is the merest glimpse of what was on the minds of these people.
Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)
The painted, engraved, and carved images of prehistory are threads from past cultures, and we are foreigners trying to interpret their meaning. Perhaps more than anything else, art can be fully understood only in the context of the culture that produced it.
Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)