Lawrence Straus on Palaeolithic Art: How to marry art and adaptation?
Author(s): Manuel Gonzalez-Morales
Year: 2016
Summary
As a great specialist in Palaeolithic Archaeology of the Old World, and also a superb connoisseur of the painted and engraved caves of France and Spain, Professor Straus had to deal with the problem of fitting the evidence of Palaeolithic “art” in the general adaptive framework of the processual Archaeology he was practicing along his professional career. In this presentation I want to analyze the evolution of his thinking about this topic, as a reflection on the general theoretical problems involved in the relationship between symbolic representations and the everyday life of Prehistoric social groups.
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Lawrence Straus on Palaeolithic Art: How to marry art and adaptation?. Manuel Gonzalez-Morales. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 403211)
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Keywords
General
Adaptation
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Palaeolithic Art
Geographic Keywords
Europe
Spatial Coverage
min long: -11.074; min lat: 37.44 ; max long: 50.098; max lat: 70.845 ;