UCSC: Porter 34B, Chaos, Fractals, and the Arts, Winter 2013

Meeting 01. T 1/08

A. Shamanic art

Caves and shamanism

Altamira discovered, 1879

Radiocarbon dating to 36 KYA, 1949

Mircea Eliade's book, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, 1951

The psychedelic hypothesis (co-origination of art and religion)

David Lewis-Williams' book, Seeing is Believing:

Symbolic Meanings in Southern San Rock Paintings, 1981 (also 1996, 2002)

The shamanic hypothesis (connection of shamanism/trance and rock art)

Phosphenes (entoptic phenomena)

Iconography

Realistic images

Abstract images

Genevieve von Petzinger, 26 signs, 2009

jean clottes and david lewis-williams, 1998
the shamans of prehistory: trance and magic in the painted caves; p. 106

genevieve von petzinger, 2009
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/geometric_signs/geometric_signs.php

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