What Are The Ancients Trying To Tell Us?
"Why would the Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherers of Europe expend so much time
and effort to penetrate into deep, dark, and dangerous caverns, where
they might encounter cave bears and lions or get lost and die, aided
only by the dim glow of animal fat-burning stone candles, often crawling
on all fours for distances of up to a mile or more underground . . . to
paint amazing, haunting images of animals?"-From The Cave and the
Cathedral
Join researcher and scientist Amir D. Aczel on a time-traveling journey
through the past and discover what the ancient caves of France and Spain
may reveal about the origin of language, art, and human thought as he
illuminates one of the greatest mysteries in anthropology.
"A well-researched and highly readable exploration of one of the most
spectacular manifestations of the unique human creative spirit-and one
of its most intriguing mysteries."-Ian Tattersall, Curator, Division
of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, and author of The
Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution