Critiquing a social aesthetic for the British Middle Pleistocene : the origins of art and the twisted biface?

This thesis is concerned with developing a theoretical rationale and critical methodology by which we can test for the existence of proto-artistic behaviours. In doing so it seeks to ask whether art as we understand it in the modem world is an emergent phenomenon or whether 'primitives' of...

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Main Author: Davies, Richard William
Published: University of Liverpool 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569208