The roots of civilization : the cognitive beginnings of man's first art, symbol and notation / Alexander Marshack.
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TextNew York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, ©1972Description: 413 pages ; illustrations ; 28 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - CB 59 M355 1972
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. Notation: the search
- The search begins
- A bit of bone
- The Mesolithic bone: Ishango
- Tracking the hunter, on paper
- Notation: the bones
Part 2. Background to the story
- The history of prehistory. An aside
Part 3. Notation and art: the research and the ideas
- Notation: early and late
- Time-factored thought
- Vault of the sky
- The bone of the eagle
- Image of the world: time-factored art
- Time-factored death
- Sex and the Goddess
Part 4. The story continued
- The step toward history
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