The Nature of Paleolithic Art

Preface: Reassembling the Bones
Note on the Illustrations
1. Drawn from Life
2. Paleolithic Artists as Naturalists
3. Tracking Down the Pleistocene Artists: The Unemphasized Role of Children
4. Testosterone Events and Paleolithic Imagery
5. The Art of Hunting Large Mammals
6. Full-Figured Women—In Ivory and in Life
7. The Evolution of Art Behavior in the Paleolithic
8. Bands to Tribes: The End of the Pleistocene and the Extinguishing of Paleolithic Art
9. Throwing the Bones: Paleolithic Art and the Evolution of the Supernatural
Appendix 1. Paleolithic Handprint Analysis, by Arny Blanchard
Appendix 2. An Intuitive Way to Look at the Hand Biometrics Using Bivariate Plots
Acknowledgments
References
Index