Quotes by : James David Lewis-Williams

The portable animal statuettes were therefore far more than decorative trinkets: they were reified three-dimensional....

I now argue that entry into Upper Palaeolithic caves was probably seen as virtually indistinguishable....

Rock art sites were symbolic vaginas, and entry into the wall of a rock art site was thus akin to intercourse.....

In altered states of consciousness, the nervous system itself becomes a ‘sixth sense’ that produces....

There were at least four contexts in which San shamans acquired insights into the spiritual world: –....

Improved memory made possible the long-term recollection of dreams and visions and the construction of....

The first two-dimensional images were thus not two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional things....

Entering a cave” or rock was a metaphor for a shaman’s altered state; therefore, caves (and rocks....

The notion that an image is a scale model of something else (say, a horse) requires a different set of....

The ‘wounded men’ may, I argue, represent a form of shamanistic suffering, ‘death’ and initiation....