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Journal articles on the topic "Palaeolithic myths"

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Bednarik, Robert G. "Palaeoart and Archaeological Myths." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2, no. 1 (1992): 27–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774300000457.

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This article addresses the question of human symbolic behaviour in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic. Bednarik argues that the case against such early symbolic behaviour usually relies on untestable propositions about the stages of human cognitive development, and that too little attention has been paid to the full range of evidence for Lower and Middle Palaeolithic symbolism. He urges that the same criteria should be applied in assessing this evidence as in assessing the more widely accepted evidence for Upper Palaeolithic symbolism. In their following reply, Chase & Dibble observe that m

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Mithen, Steven J. "Ecological Interpretations of Palaeolithic Art." Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 57, no. 01 (1991): 103–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x00004916.

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To describe, let alone explain, the paintings, engravings and sculpture of the Upper Palaeolithic as ‘adaptations’ may sound absurd. These are products of the human mind — a world of symbols and dreams, myths and fantasies. So to suggest that this art can be understood in an ecological framework may strike one as facile. Upper Palaeolithic art is one of the great cultural achievements of human kind. It testifies not only to an immense technical skill but to the human capacity for expressing emotion through the use of line, form and colour. Although we cannot know the meaning of the art, throug

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Yakar, Halide Gamze Ince. "From Mythological Ages to Anthropocene: Nature and Human Relationship." International Education Studies 11, no. 5 (2018): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v11n5p94.

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Ecological problems are some of the most important items on the agenda of humanity in the 21st century. Adding spiritual depth, ethical point of view and basic human traditions to the contribution that human beings provide to ecological problems through intellect will provide realistic and lasting results. In the Palaeolithic Age, where man is under the domination of nature, he owes gratitude to the divine power of nature and worships its elements. With the beginning of industrialization, myths were only old-time stories for humanity. Due to the holism rule of ecology the salvation of nature m

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Gage, John. "What Meaning had Colour in Early Societies?" Cambridge Archaeological Journal 9, no. 1 (1999): 109–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774300015237.

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Colour is one of the most prominent features of human experience, but has often been ignored or overlooked in archaeological research. All practising archaeologists are aware of the colour of the materials which they handle — be they stone artefacts, painted pots, prehistoric monuments (frontispiece) or historical buildings. Yet all too frequently these items are robbed of their colour when they are published as black and white photos, abstract plans or reductionist line drawings. Equally discouraging is the fact that original colours are frequently missing or faded, removed by the passage of

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Bessudnov, A. A. "Zamyatnin archaeological culture of the Late Upper Palaeolithic: a myth or reality?" Camera Praehistorica 1, no. 2 (2019): 36–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.31250/2658-3828-2019-1-36-69.

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Negro, Marianna, Nicholas Whitehead, Caroline Malone, and Simon Stoddart. "Revisiting Gubbio: Settlement Patterns and Ritual from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Roman Era." Land 13, no. 9 (2024): 1369. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land13091369.

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The Gubbio Revisited project, initiated to reinterpret the archaeological evidence collected during the 1980s Gubbio Project, primarily by a conversion from a paper to a digital record, has revealed significant insights into the evolving settlement patterns and religious expression in the Gubbio valley in Central Italy. This reanalysis of the survey evidence underscores the rhythms of settlement and ritual practice from the Neolithic through the Bronze and Iron Ages, into Roman times. Key excavations in the 1980s at Monte Ingino, Monte Ansciano, San Marco Romano, and San Marco Neolitico added

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Kovárník, Jaromír. "Can similarities be found in the cults of prehistoric hunters and farmers? Analysis of ‘dance’ scenes of four beings of the Mesolithic from Alta, Finnmark, Norway, and of the beginning of the Eneolithic from Střelice, southwestern Moravia, Czech Republic." Acta Archaeologica Carpathica 56 (December 2021): 103–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/00015229aac.21.005.15346.

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The ways of life of hunters, fishers and gatherers are noticeably different from those of farmers. Surviving evidence of their cultures is very rare. Although we are aware that it is very difficult to interpret and compare them, sometimes external similarities can be observed, such as in the depiction of human figures, particularly female figurines (also in zoomorphic sculptures) in the Upper Palaeolithic (‘the Cult of Hunters’) and in the Neolithic (‘Field Fertility Cult’ and ‘Domestic Animals Fertility Cult’). The depiction of a woman and three men with their arms stretched upwards on a famo

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Bless, Martin. ""Venus" cult and "Old Man" mythological motif have already existed since 50.000 BP." November 6, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1042173.

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Janik, Liliana. "Her and Him, Exploring the Creation Myth and Symbolism of Gender in Upper Palaeolithic Portable Art of Eurasia." Palethnologie, no. 5 (January 30, 2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/palethnologie.5414.

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Book chapters on the topic "Palaeolithic myths"

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Rozwadowski, Andrzej. "Powrót do „afrykańskości” w interpretacji południowoafrykańskiej sztuki naskalnej i jego implikacje teoretyczne." In Sztuka Afryki. Afrykańska tradycja – afrykańska nowoczesność. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/8088-321-5.03.

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The South African rock art related to Bushmen (San) tradition is today one of the best understood rock arts all over the world. This situation results from theoretical advances proposed and elaborated by David Lewis-Williams, who was a founder of new school in rock art research. Careful analyses of ethnographic data of the !Xam Bushmen, in particular of the curing dance and the beliefs related to this ritual, have opened new ways of insight into semantics of the South African rock paintings. A key aspect of the new way of reading rock art concerned the decipherment of San metaphors of trance e

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Thornes, John. "Land Degradation." In The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199268030.003.0036.

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‘Land degradation’ means the reduction and loss of the biological or economic productivity caused by land use change or by a physical process or a combination of the two. ‘Land’ means the terrestrial bio-productive system that comprises soil, vegetation, and other biota and the ecological and hydrological processes that operate within the system (UNEP 1992). The main components of land degradation are ecological degradation, soil loss, and reduction in the amount and quality of the available water resources for human survival and economic sustainability. Conacher and Sala (1998) have edited a

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Conference papers on the topic "Palaeolithic myths"

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Wolf, S., N. Ebinger-Rist, C. J. Kind, and K. Wehrberger. "NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE LION MAN FIGURINE OF HOHLENSTEIN-STADEL CAVE (SOUTHWESTERN GERMANY)." In Знаки и образы в искусстве каменного века. Международная конференция. Тезисы докладов [Электронный ресурс]. Crossref, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.25681/iaras.2019.978-5-94375-308-4.32.

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In the Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave in 1939 excavators uncovered nearly 200 mammoth ivory fragments, which were refitted as a therianthrope figurine with the head and torso of a cave lion but with the legs of a human being. It was thus named the Lion Man. During recent excavations in the Stadel Cave between 2008 and 2013, a stratigraphic sequence was discovered that extended from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Aurignacian. It became clear that the location of the Lion Man during the excavations of 1939 corresponded to layer Au of the recent 2008-2013 excavations part of the excavation back dirt fro

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