The accompanying title to the major exhibition at the British Museum: Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind, 7 February - 26 May 2013. This is a thought-provoking exploration of the masterpieces of sculpture, drawing and decoration of the last Ice Age. Produced between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, this is some of the oldest known figurative art in the world. Looking at these art works provides a fascinating insight into the earliest modern minds and their capacity to express ideas symbolically through art. Over 100 objects are featured, including small but exquisite sculptures made from mammoth ivory, engraved drawings, ceramic models, decorated objects and jewellery from the age of the great painted caves. Some are celebrated masterpieces such as the Swimming Reindeer (13,000 years old), the so- called Willendorf Venus (25,000 years old), the Vogelherd Horse (32,000 years old) and the Lion Man (32,000 years old); others are lesser- known treasures from the collections of European museums. The author examines them in a new light, as works of aesthetic – not solely archaeological – interest, and as such forming part of an unbroken continuum of human creativity. The compelling narrative is also illustrated with a wealth of images, from classical sculpture to twentieth-century painting and even contemporary advertising campaigns, which demonstrate surprising aesthetic parallels between these ancient works and familiar modern pieces. In this way, Ice Age art will bring home the point that the minds that created these objects in all their diversity and inventiveness were modern minds like our own, capable of highly sophisticated thought and expression.

Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind

Cook, Jill

Reference

British Museum Press

Discovered in 1866 as two separate pieces and acquired by the British Museum in 1887, the sculpture known as the 'swimming reindeer' depicts a male and a female reindeer with their heads up and legs extended, and was created at least 13,000 years ago. The sculpture is 22 cm long and was carved from mammoth ivory using stone tools, and then polished and engraved to add detail. The naturalism of the representation is remarkable, conveying movement and displaying a hunter's knowledge of anatomy as we can clearly tell the sex of the reindeer, and see differences in the coats of the male and female. The fragility of the connection between the two halves of the sculpture means that they do not form a practical object, as first thought, but instead a masterpiece of figurative art, although its real significance to the society that created it remains a mystery. Possibly designed to ward off bad luck, as a totem for a group or as the focal point of a myth, the swimming reindeer offers us a glimpse into an Ice Age society and allows us to discover an exciting and previously unexplored world of art. This book details the discovery and dating of this extraordinary artefact as well as exploring the artistic techniques used to create it and its importance both then and now.

The Swimming Reindeer (Object in Focus)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

BRITISH MUSEUM

10,000 years ago, late Ice Age and early post-glacial communities moved through the Kennet Valley to the Thames, following game and taking advantage of sheltered positions to make their camps. Favourable geological conditions in the neighbourhood of Newbury have preserved several of these camp sites in situ. One of these, Avington VI, has revealed evidence of structures which are, so far, unique in Britain. The remarkable concentrations of Long Blade artefacts provide insights into the daily activities of the hunters who lived there. Other sites fill in the details about ecological conditions during this period of climate change and how humans adapted to them.

Late Glacial Long Blade sites in the Kennet Valley: Excavations and Fieldwork at Avington VI, Wawcott XII and Crown Acres (British Museum Press Occasional Paper)

History

Froom, Roy

Europe

The Natural History Museum took over the excavations at Westbury Cave in Somerset in 1976 to try to resolve issues raised by earlier work carried out by Michael Bishop. These included the dating of the sequence of deposits, the presence of evidence for human occupation of the site and the position of the cave evidence within the British Pleistocene sequence. This volume assesses the new evidence produced by excavations between 1976 and 1984: sedimentary sequence, soil micromorphology, faunal assemblages, small mammal fauna, fossil ruminants, larger carnivores, palaeoecological reconstruction, flint finds.

Westbury Cave

Stringer, Chris

Andrews, Peter

Currant, Andrew

Western Academic & Specialist Press

The Discovery of Human Antiquity: A Sourcebook

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

KWS Publishers

Advent: A Deeper Understanding of the Long-Awaited Gift

Religion & Spirituality

Bean, Kimberly

Lyon, Megan

Christian Books & Bibles

Independently published

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Medical Books

Clarsen, Ben

Cools, Ann

Crossley, Kay

Hutchinson, Mark

McCrory, Paul

Bahr, Roald

Brukner,Peter

Khan,Karim

Medicine

McGraw-Hill Education / Australia

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Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine, Revised: Injuries

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

McGraw-Hill Australia

This is a volume no Palaeolithic archaeologist should be without. It is offered to Derek Roe by his friends and colleagues as a tribute to his enthusiasm, support and encouragement over many years. The twenty-seven papers range from Africa to the Near East and beyond, to Kazakhstan and Korea, and across southern Europe to Britain, the Thames Valley, East Anglia and Pontnewydd. The list of authors and the range of topics they write about are a reflection of Derek Roe's influence throughout the Palaeolithic world.Table of ContentsVariability in primary and secondary technologies of the Later Acheulian in Africa (J Desmond Clark) The shape of handaxes, the structure of the Acheulian world (Clive Gamble and Gilbert Marshall) An Acheulian settlement pattern in the Upper Karoo region of South Africa (C. Garth Sampson) A speculative essay on the role of the Victoria West phenomenon at Canteen Koppie, during the South African Earlier Stone Age (John McNabb) Diamonds, alluvials and artefacts. The Stone Age in Sierra Leone and the Cotton Tree Museum (Phillip Allsworth-Jones) Some notes on fish and fishing in Africa (Ray Inskeep) Europe and Africa during the Palaeolithic (Marcel Otte) The initial peopling of Eurasia and the early occupation of Europe in its Afro-Asian context (Nicholas Rolland) In quest for Palaeolithic human behaviour (Ofer Bar-Yosef) Cleavers: their distribution, chronology and typology (Vadim A. Ranov) Ex Africa aliquid semper novi: the view from Pontnewydd (Stephen Aldhouse-Green) A newly identified Acheulian handaxe type at Tabun Cave: the Faustkeilblätter (Zinovy Matskevitch, Naama Goren-Inbar & Sabine Gaudzinski) The Palaeolithic industries in Korea: chronology and related new find-spots (Hyeong Woo Lee) Lower and Middle Palaeolithic occupation in Central Kazakhstan: the Batpak Valley and environs (Norah Moloney, Sandra L. Olsen & Valery Voloshin) Venta Micena, Barranco León-5 and Fuentenueva-3: three archaeological sites in the Early Pleistocene deposits of Orce, south-east Spain (Josep Gibert, Lluís Gibert, Carlos Ferràndez-Canyadell, Alfredo Iglesias & Fernando González) Excavations at Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar and Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo: two sites in Murcia (south-east Spain) with Neanderthal skeletal remains, Mousterian assemblages and late Middle to early Upper Pleistocene fauna (Michael J. Walker) Acheulian handaxe variability in Middle Pleistocene Italy: a case study (Sarah Milliken) Palaeoliths in a lost pre-Anglian landscape (John Wymer) New Lower Palaeolithic finds from the Upper Thames (Terry Hardaker) One step beyond. Flint shortage above the Goring Gap: the example of Wolvercote (Nick Ashton) A river runs through it: a decade of research at Stanton Harcourt (Katherine Scott & Christine M. Buckingham) Recent investigations at Dickett's Field, Yarnhams Farm, Holybourne, Hants. (Julie E. Scott-Jackson & Vicky Winton) The Sackung Hypothesis: a challenge for Palaeolithic prospection (Simon Collcutt) A Lyngby point from Mildenhall, Suffolk, and its implications for the British Late Upper Palaeolithic (Alison J. Roberts & Nick Barton) Out of Abbeville: Sir John Evans, Palaeolithic patriarch and handaxe pioneer (Mark J. White) Old collections - a new resource? The history of some English Palaeolithic collections in Cardiff (Elizabeth A. Walker) A burnt Mesolithic hunting camp on the Mendips: a preliminary report on structural traces excavated on Lower Pitts Farm, Priddy, Somerset (Joan J. Taylor) Derek Roe, A Bibliography

A Very Remote Period Indeed: Papers on the Palaeolithic presented to Derek Roe

Milliken, Sarah

Oxbow Books

Buddy the Teddy Learns the Joy of Giving: Christmas is a Time for Kindness (Teach Children to Be Kind)

Children's Books

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