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It's Pretty
- art for art's sake
- why are there no carnivores at the front?
- why are there ritual offerings?
- Magic? Ritual?
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Sympathetic Magic
- like brings like
- reciprocal representation
- but the most common hunted animal
"reindeer" are rarely depicted in
paintings
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Storytelling/initation rituals?
- most handprints are
children, adolescent males,
and adult females. Footprints
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Shamanism (controversial term)
- intermediateries
to the spirit
world
- trance states?
- deep vision quests?
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Social Identity?
- regular meeting places
are important to hunter
gatherers
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Humans
- there are really onle one human depiction
the human dressed or masked as an
animal