ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lascaux, Sensory Deprivation, Evolution Of The Brain
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The art: animals are lifelike, depict action accurately, both animals they hunt and other animals, abstract designs of dots and lines, humans not lifelike. Women are lifelike but men are not: artwork overlaps and sometimes found in odd locations. There was art where you had to crawl and isolated. Shaman hypothesis (shamans are those who heal others with medicine) wasn"t necessarily for others to see: the african society in botswana. The spirit that leaves your body returns to the spirit world. This represented the trance state: it was shown that these individuals went into the cave and was blind folded where they eventually suffered from sensory deprivation and started to see patterns which they tried to illustrate. Astronomical alignment/calendar hypothesis: when the light shined into the cave at a particular time in the year made the paintings shown and the ancestors recreated the shadows.
