ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Kuahuqiao Site, Monocropping
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Showing a whole range of animals that were part of their lives. Women are lifelike and men are not. Found in odd locations not necessarily to show everyone. Common interpretation it that there is something spiritual death scene (religion or a successful hunt), horse or bison animal emerging from the hole/earth (birth or origin of life) In hunter gatherers find people with skills, with connection to the spirits (healers/communicate), near specialists of that society. Society built on traveling to a spirit world trance, altered state of consciousness. Methodology finding analogs for belief system or any system, modern society that lives away and closer to upper paleolithic people. Creating a powerful rhythmic song than dance, becoming detached from what was happening around him gone into a trance. How it links to shamanism painting of a dying animal with a dying man close by. Scattered dots around the whole image africa drawing (200 years ago) and europe drawings (thousand years ago)
