The Cave and the Cathedral
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The Cave and the Cathedral

How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Cave and the Cathedral

How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man

About this book

What Are The Ancients Trying To Tell Us?

"Why would the Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherers of Europe expend so much time and effort to penetrate into deep, dark, and dangerous caverns, where they might encounter cave bears and lions or get lost and die, aided only by the dim glow of animal fat–burning stone candles, often crawling on all fours for distances of up to a mile or more underground... to paint amazing, haunting images of animals?"
— From The Cave and the Cathedral

Join researcher and scientist Amir D. Aczel on a time-traveling journey through the past and discover what the ancient caves of France and Spain may reveal about the origin of language, art, and human thought as he illuminates one of the greatest mysteries in anthropology.

"A well-researched and highly readable exploration of one of the most spectacular manifestations of the unique human creative spirit–and one of its most intriguing mysteries."
— Ian Tattersall, Curator, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, and author of The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution

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Table of contents

  1. Books by Amir Aczel
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Chapter 1 - The Adventure of Niaux
  8. Chapter 2 - The Greatest Mystery
  9. Chapter 3 - The Neanderthal Enigma
  10. Chapter 4 - The Roots of Language
  11. Chapter 5 - Abbé Breuil
  12. Chapter 6 - Font-de-Gaume and Combarelles
  13. Chapter 7 - The Tale of a Missing Dog
  14. Chapter 8 - The Sign of the Bull and the Legend of the Minotaur
  15. Chapter 9 - Rouffignac and Pech Merle
  16. Chapter 10 - The Discovery of Lascaux
  17. Chapter 11 - The Enigma of the Pit
  18. Chapter 12 - The Groundbreaking Work of Annette Laming-Emperaire
  19. Chapter 13 - Prehistoric Objets d’Art
  20. Chapter 14 - The Sign of the Hand
  21. Chapter 15 - The Legend of the White Lady
  22. Chapter 16 - Shamans of the Tundra
  23. Chapter 17 - Stonehenge and Signs in the Sky
  24. Chapter 18 - The Mediterranean, Australia, and Patagonia
  25. Chapter 19 - Leroi-Gourhan’s Theory
  26. Chapter 20 - The Relationship between Signs and Animals
  27. Chapter 21 - The Chauvet Cave
  28. Notes
  29. References
  30. Illustration Credits
  31. Index