The Magic Origin of Prehistoric Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3509538 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Count Bégouen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1929 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 5-19 |
| Publication date | 1929-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00002933 |
| OpenAlex | W2254863696 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
The authenticity of the prehistoric paintings of the caves of Altamira has now been fully recognized for about thirty years, and with the many similar discoveries which have been made in France and Spain an entirely new light has been thrown on the mentality of prehistoric men. We must henceforth acknowledge that they possessed artistic tastes and a well developed aesthetic sense. No longer may we think of them as savages, solely concerned with the most material needs of daily life, but rather as men endowed with well-developed intellect and capable of considering things over and above the mere material side of the struggle for existence.The discovery of skeletons, obviously buried with care, and surrounded with tools and ornaments, had already proved to us that respect was paid to the dead, and that there was a belief in an after-life. But with the discovery of works of art a fresh avenue of knowledge was opened up before us
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Cave · Cave painting · Epistemology · Intellect · MAGIC (telescope) · Ornaments · Painting · Prehistory · Rock art · Archaeological and Geological Studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Interpretación de retruécanos, imágenes de doble sentido y bromas en el arte paleolítico
Understanding Pleistocene Rock Art
The Origins of the Concept of ‘Palaeolithic Art’
Rock Art and Ritual
Evolution and the Origins of Visual Art
Paleolithic Art
Kincentric Ecology, Species Maintenance and the Relational Power of Place in Northern Australia
Chronique
Analyzing Fertility and Attraction in the Paleolithic
Ways of Looking at Prehistoric Rock Art
The hooked stick in the Lascaux shaft scene
Salomon Reinach and the religious interpretation of Palaeolithic art
Toward Decolonizing Gender
Shamanic Ritual and Ancient Circumpolar Migrations
| Citations per year | 0.47 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2021 (26) |
| Highly cited | No |