Quotes by : James David Lewis-Williams

Perhaps the most striking feature of the west European Upper Palaeolithic, one on which many writers....

Around 30,000 years ago, in the Aurignacian, at the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic, someone or some....

For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions.

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

According to Martindale’s view, as we drift into sleep we pass through: – waking, problem-oriented....

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.....

The cerebral cortex, the outer ‘skin’ of the brain, contains as many as ten billion neurons. This....

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

In southern Africa, a great many figures are ithyphallic. This feature has generally – and rather vaguely....