Gregory Curtis
The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain—the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery.
Gregory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells us what is known about their creators, the Cro-Magnon people of some 40,000 years ago.
David Lewis Williams
Offers an explanation for the origins of prehistoric cave art, providing a glimpse into the mind of mankind’s earliest ancestors and insights on the relationship between consciousness and artistic representation.
Jean Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel Deschamps, Christian Hillaire
The 1990s have witnessed a sort of renaissance in cave art, thanks to new discoveries from the south of France. Previously, the oldest examples of human art were thought to have been painted 15,000 years ago. When these three spelunkers-turned-authors happened upon the Chauvet cave (named after one of them), however, they visited an underground art gallery that had been closed for 30,000 years.
Randall White
While some prehistoric sites – notably the painted caves at Lascaux in France and at Altamira in northern Spain – are familiar, many more such places are almost unknown. In fact, remains left by prehistoric men and women are far more numerous and have been found over a much greater territory – including Eurasia, Africa, Australia and the Americas – than most people are aware.
Max Raphael
In his text, Max Raphael indicates how these two forces contributed to the monumental realism of their animal paintings. He draws a clear distinction between ‘primitive’ and ‘prehistoric’ man, and demonstrates that all factors essential to a work of art are already to be found in the cave paintings.
T. G. E. Powell
This book introduces work from the skilled hands of many ancient craftsmen whose names and circumstances will never be known. Here will be found artistic works that range from the earliest art of the cave dwellers and hunters through the Neolithic and Bronze Ages to the sophisticated metalwork of the Late Iron Age.
Michel Lorblanchet
Two of the greatest living authorities on Ice Age art delve hundreds of thousands of years into the human past to discover the earliest works of art ever made, drawing on decades of new research
Randall White
This unique book explores the extraordinary sculpture and drawings created during the last European Ice Age, between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago – the oldest known figurative art in the world.
Bruno David and Ian J. McNiven
This unique book explores the extraordinary sculpture and drawings created during the last European Ice Age, between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago – the oldest known figurative art in the world.
Brian M. Fagan
A detailed look at this critical period in Earth’s history, from two million years ago to c. 10,000 BC, beautifully illustrated with photographs, diagrams, and reconstruction scenes.