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Cave art, Jean Clottes

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Cave art, Jean Clottes
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-[323]) and index
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Cave art
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
234078144
Responsibility statement
Jean Clottes
Summary
This comprehensive guide to prehistoric art explores the origins of human artistic endeavor. Clottes takes the reader on a guided tour of 85 caves and rock shelters, mostly in western Europe, but also in Africa, Asia, the Americans, and Australia, to reveal the extraordinary beauty of the works of art found within them
Table Of Contents
pt. 1. 35,000-22,000 years ago : the age of Chauvet. -- The Chauvet cave -- Aurignacian art -- Gravettian art -- pt. 2. 22,000-17,000 years ago : the age of Lascaux. -- The Lascaux cave -- Solutrean art -- pt. 3. 17,000-11,000 years ago : the end of the Ice Age. -- The Niaux cave -- Magdalenian art -- pt. 4. From 11,000 years ago : after the Ice Age
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