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02667aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 5185A68CC38A11E7B100357297128E48 003 SILO 005 20171107010627 008 160618s2017 enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0500051879 020 $a 9780500051870 035 $a (OCoLC)951949647 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d ERASA $d CDX $d VA@ $d YDX $d VA@ $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d YAM $d SILO 050 4 $a N5310 $b .L698 2017 082 04 $a 709.1/12 $2 23 100 1 $a Lorblanchet, Michel, $d 1937- $e author. 245 14 $a The first artists : $b in search of the world's oldest art / $c Michel Lorblanchet and Paul Bahn ; foreword by Pierre Soulages. 264 1 $a London ; $b Thames & Hudson Ltd, $c 2017. 300 $a 296 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-290) and index. 505 0 $a Foreword / Pierre Soulages -- Introduction: what is 'art'? -- 1. Theories, chimps and children : early attempts to tackle the problem -- 2. Finding art in nature : the first stirrings of an aesthetic sense -- 3. Can we see art in the first tools? : polyhedrons, spheroids and handaxes -- 4. All work and no play? : looking at marks on bones and stones -- 5. Figuring it out : pierres-figures and the first carvings -- 6. Jingles and bangles : the origin of music and decorated bodies -- 7. The first art in the landscape : dots and lines -- 8. The writing's on the wall : the earliest cave art -- 9. A global phenomenon : the appearance of rock art around the world -- Conclusion. 520 8 $a Where do we find the world's very first art? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms and colors? Were our once-cousins, the Neanderthals, also capable of creating art? Prehistorians have been asking these questions of our ancestors for decades, but only very recently, with the development of cutting-edge scientific and archaeological techniques, have we been able to piece together the first chapter in the story of art. 650 0 $a Art, Prehistoric. 650 0 $a Art objects, Ancient. 650 0 $a Tools, Prehistoric. 650 0 $a Antiquities, Prehistoric. 650 0 $a Art, Primitive. 650 7 $a Art, Prehistoric. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00816761 650 7 $a Art, Primitive. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00816768 700 1 $a Bahn, Paul G., $e author. 700 1 $a Soulages, Pierre, $d 1919- $e author of foreword. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019013117.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20180227011032.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171107014542.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5185A68CC38A11E7B100357297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search