Scholars of paleolithic art honor their esteemed colleague Marshack (1918-2004) with 22 essays about him, his contribution to the field, and topics of particular interest to him. They discuss
such matters as abstract and figurative artistic expressions in the Levant, support for a new sky hero from a conquered land, eye and vision in paleolithic art, the oldest representation of
childbirth, a diachronic analysis of Santa Claus and the European sky bears, claw marks and ritual traces in the paleolithic sanctuaries of the Quercy, the little-known prehistoric Sardinian
figurine The Venus of Macomer, four forms of finger flutings as seen in France's Fouffignac Cave, a nest of Neanderthal enigma, and evolution and the human capacity. There is no index.
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