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“The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not.”

This chapter on prehistoric art was very interesting, particularly the segment about cave paintings potentially being shamanistic. A good reminder that we often push our own modern western ideas onto our prehistoric studies even unconsciously

archaeological remains give us “only the narrowest of windows into the ancient world” as many aspects of technologically primitive societies is not material nor materially lasting, and therefore invisible to the archeological record. Important to remember that we will only ever be able to understand a very small portion of prehistorical societies if that