Ancestral Images : : The Iconography of Human Origins /

Ancestral Images : : The Iconography of Human Origins / / Stephanie Moser.

Pictorial reconstructions of ancient human ancestors have twin purposes: to make sense of shared ancestry and to bring prehistory to life. Stephanie Moser analyzes the close relationship between representations of the past and theories about human evolution, showing how this relationship existed eve...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Moser, Stephanie,
MitwirkendeR:
Gamble, Clive,
TeilnehmendeR:
Gamble, Clive.
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1998
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 70 halftones, 15 color illustrations in an 8-page insert
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Artist's Eye and the Mind of Science
  • Chapter 2: Mythological Visions of Human Creation
  • Chapter 3: Religious and Secular Visions of Human Creation
  • Chapter 4: Historical Visions of National Origins
  • Chapter 5: The Scientific Vision of Prehistory
  • Chapter 6: Popular Presentations
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Picture Credits
  • References
  • Index

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