What does the breathtakingly beautiful art depicted on the walls of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, tell us about the nature of the ancestral mind? How did these images spring, seemingly from nowhere into the human story?
The Mind in the Cave puts forward the most plausible explanation yet proposed for the origins of image-making and art. This is a masterful piece of detective work, casting light on the darkest mysteries of our earliest ancestors and on the nature of our own consciousness and experience.
- ISBN13 9780500284650
- Publish Date 5 April 2004 (first published 31 August 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English