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From animal to humans : anthropogenesis as a subject of scientific research / Václav Soukup -- Symbolic thought, creativity, and human evolution / Ian Tattersall -- Hominin mind and creativity / Robert Bednarik -- Proto-art and art : art before art / Barbora Půta -- Symbolic material culture in the late Pleistocene : use in prehistory, appearance in the archaeological record and taphonomy / Michelle C. Langley -- Mind reading and symbolism in human evolution : the Upper Paleolithic period / Winfried Henke -- The origin of culture by means of natural and artefactual languages / Kate Distin -- In the beginning was art... / Walter Leitner -- Towards abstraction during the Palaeolithic / Christine Desdemaines-Hugon -- The genesis of human creativity and art / Jean Clottes -- The start of art / Harald Floss -- Thoughts on Ice Age art / Ingmar M. Braun -- Artistic techniques in the Upper Paleolithic age / Barbora Půta, Václav Soukup -- The seven wonders of prehistoric culture : Western Europe / Barbora Půta, Václav Soukup -- The seven wonders of prehistoric culture : Central Europe / Barbora Půta, Václav Soukup -- The seven wonders of prehistoric culture : Eastern Europe / Barbora Půta, Václav Soukup -- At the beginning : rock art in southwest Europe / Hipólito Collado Giraldo -- A comparative perspective on the femaleness of Paleolithic figurines / Richard Lesure -- The genesis and patterns of prehistoric art / Emmanuel Anati, Ariela Fradkin Anati -- The origins of artistic genius and the archaeology of emotional difference / Dave Whitley, Carmen M.T. Whitley -- The emergence of visual narrative in prehistory / Esther Jacobson-Tepfer -- Art, rock art and climate change / Thomas Heyd, Tilman Lenssen-Erz -- Art in the light of darkness / Tilman Lenssen-Erz -- Elemental marking and the emergence of the mind / Jack Steinbring -- "Revolution of symbols", cognition, and the Neolithic revolution / Augustin F.C. Holl -- Experiments with replicas of Neolithic sickles / Miroslav Popelka. |
