A taphonomy of palaeoart

Robert G. Bednarik

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Archaeology and Rock Art Studies Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology Language and cultural evolution

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As one digs back through the archaeological record, art and other evidence of symbolic behaviour becomes scarcer, so it is much disputed just when human marking behaviour and human language began. Is the fading away a real fact of prehistory, or a distorting effect of selective survival?

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1966Prehistoire de l'art Occidental.1992Palaeoart and Archaeological Myths 1992Ancient Images, Ancient Thought: The Archaeology of Ideology

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