Making Art in the Ice Age
Archaeopress Archaeology (Verlag)
978-1-80583-088-7 (ISBN)
The extraordinary phenomenon of Ice Age art endured for over 30,000 years of our prehistory. This book will show you how the art was discovered, how it was made, how we know its age and if it’s genuine. But this art is much more than pictures and paint – it tells us more about our early ancestors than bones and tools ever will. Life during the Ice Age was a huge part of our human journey, and the people who lived then, by painting on cave walls and engraving their myths on animal bones, have reached out to us down the millennia with their stories and memories. It is unlikely we will ever know the meanings of the simple handprints or the animal silhouette paintings, or the ideas that were shared in great cave wall murals, but they are likely to be profound. And despite our inability to understand the messages, we can still marvel at the valuable gifts these Ice Age artists have bestowed on us.
Paul Bahn has a PhD in archaeology from Cambridge University, and for decades has been an independent researcher, writing and editing a wide range of archaeological books, including several on Ice Age art. He also lectures on numerous tours to the decorated Ice Age caves. Elle Clifford began her career lecturing in social and developmental psychology, and researching stress and women’s reproductive health. She published over a dozen academic papers on these topics. She then acquired a Master’s degree in prehistory at York University with a thesis on cave art and mythological worlds. In recent years Elle has accompanied Paul on visits to more than 50 of the most important decorated caves. They have co-authored two papers on the so-called ‘Lion Man’ figurine of the Ice Age.
Foreword
Deep time line
How was cave art discovered?
What did they draw and paint?
Drawing humans
Portable art
Techniques in cave art
What did they use to make art?
Images outside caves
How old is the art?
Fakes and forgeries
Can we know what the art means?
Conclusion
Glossary
Appendix: Further reading
Image credits
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.11.2025 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Antony Gormley |
| Zusatzinfo | Highly illustrated in full colour throughout |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 174 x 245 mm |
| Gewicht | 508 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80583-088-0 / 1805830880 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80583-088-7 / 9781805830887 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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