Visual Arts · Art History: Ancient to Medieval
A topic within Art History: Ancient to Medieval, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Visual Arts.
2 works
John Lubbock
Argues Palaeolithic cave art and tool technology are evidence of a coherent early human culture, establishing the stage-based framework — Palaeolithic, Neolithic — still used to periodise prehistoric art.
link checked 17 Sept 2026William Boyd Dawkins
Uses the stratified remains and engraved bone and antler found in European caves to argue that Palaeolithic image-making is contemporary with, and evidence for, a distinct hunting culture rather than a later intrusion.
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