From script to print
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20071682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Feather (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 3-20 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Information Society (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Facet (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.29085/9781856049597.003 |
| OpenAlex | W2798793302 |
| ISBN | 9781856049597 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The earliest evidence for the existence of Homo sapiens derives from the interpretation of archaeological and palaeontological evidence rather than from records consciously made by people themselves. Our species was already in an advanced stage of physiological and intellectual development before we began to leave a deliberate mark on the world around us. The first such marks, perhaps the first consciously created records, are the graphic representations of daily life which have been found in caves in France and elsewhere. Scholars debate the significance of these, whether they are religious, social, or merely artistic; for our purposes, their importance is that we have here the first evidence of a species which sought some means to represent the world in which it lived. It found a material on which the representation could be recorded – the rock walls of a cave – and a medium – natural dyes – in which it could be made
Archaeology · Art · Cave · Genealogy · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Natural (archaeology) · Political science · Representation (politics) · Visual arts · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1975 - 2001 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |