Its burial rites that David Williams cites as the origination of man in The Mind in The Cave Consciousness & Origins of Art
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Unfortunately, it's not a very good book. David Lewis-Williams did not understand the first thing about shamanism and it comes through in his awkward explanations of Paleolithic art & culture. Besides that, he was an anti-Neanderthal racist.
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The idea that art depicts movement seems more universal than there being a cosmic unity. Racist? In a general or anti-Neanderthal way?
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