by David Lewis - Williams (Author)
What does the breathtakingly beautiful art depicted on the walls of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, tell us about the nature of the ancestral mind? How did these images spring, seemingly from nowhere into the human story?
The Mind in the Cave puts forward the most plausible explanation yet proposed for the origins of image-making and art. This is a masterful piece of detective work, casting light on the darkest mysteries of our earliest ancestors and on the nature of our own consciousness and experience.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 320
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Published: 05 Apr 2004
ISBN 10: 0500284652
ISBN 13: 9780500284650
Book Overview: An intellectual adventure story, built around the quest to understand the nature of human consciousness and the dawning of art