The Roots of Civilization: The Cognitive Beginnings of Man's First Art, Symbol and NotationMoyer Bell, 1991 - 445 Seiten Uses artifacts, paintings, and drawings from the hunters of the Ice Age to prove that the origins of thought, the use of symbolic notation, and the development of language occurred much earlier than scientists had previously speculated. |
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FOREWORD A BACKWARDLOOKING FOREWORD | 5 |
BACKGROUND TO THE STORY | 57 |
THE RESEARCH AND THE IDEAS | 81 |
Urheberrecht | |
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