
The Cave and the Cathedral
How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man
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- English
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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
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 fatâburning stone candles, often crawling on all fours for distances of up to a mile or more underground... to paint amazing, haunting images of animals?"
â 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 spiritâand one of its most intriguing mysteries."
â 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
- Books by Amir Aczel
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 - The Adventure of Niaux
- Chapter 2 - The Greatest Mystery
- Chapter 3 - The Neanderthal Enigma
- Chapter 4 - The Roots of Language
- Chapter 5 - Abbé Breuil
- Chapter 6 - Font-de-Gaume and Combarelles
- Chapter 7 - The Tale of a Missing Dog
- Chapter 8 - The Sign of the Bull and the Legend of the Minotaur
- Chapter 9 - Rouffignac and Pech Merle
- Chapter 10 - The Discovery of Lascaux
- Chapter 11 - The Enigma of the Pit
- Chapter 12 - The Groundbreaking Work of Annette Laming-Emperaire
- Chapter 13 - Prehistoric Objets dâArt
- Chapter 14 - The Sign of the Hand
- Chapter 15 - The Legend of the White Lady
- Chapter 16 - Shamans of the Tundra
- Chapter 17 - Stonehenge and Signs in the Sky
- Chapter 18 - The Mediterranean, Australia, and Patagonia
- Chapter 19 - Leroi-Gourhanâs Theory
- Chapter 20 - The Relationship between Signs and Animals
- Chapter 21 - The Chauvet Cave
- Notes
- References
- Illustration Credits
- Index