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   Jedi
   Member

   For those who enjoy a good novel, Jean M. Auel has written a series of great prehistoric novels starting with The Clan of The Cave Bear http://www.amazon.com/Clan-Cave-Bear-Earths-Children/dp/0553250426/ref=cm_lmf_tit_1, I read them a few years back and while fiction, the author has done loads of research, they drew me back to this era wonderfully.

   Posted 7 months ago #
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   eva
   Member

   read them all a long time ago and i remember enjoying the most the long descriptions of everyday life and different daily tasks and ofcourse the herbology :)

   Posted 7 months ago #
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   Mick
   Member

   Prehistory's fascinating, even if the details of life at such a distance remain somewhat dark and have to be inferred from scattered remains and ethnographic parallels. I can understand the appeal of researching for and writing fiction about those times.

   Wonderful pictures of the Chauvet cave here:

   http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/

   If anyone's interested in the cave art, don't miss David Lewis-Williams's book -

   The Mind in the Cave

   http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Cave-Consciousness-Origins-Art/dp/0500284652/

   He shows pretty conclusively that the cave art is linked with altered states of consciousness. We know these states of consciousness are important for the Bushmen, who were still making such such art till recently. Asked about paintings, Bushmen said things like: "Those are the men who've died and gone to live in streams" - metaphors for trance. Many ancient (and modern) paintings also have elongated figures and superimposed geometrical shapes - again typical of what's seen and felt in trance-like states.

   Posted 7 months ago #

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