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A taphonomy of palaeoart

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

Robert G. Bednarik
Robert G. Bednarik*
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International Federation of Rock Art Organizations, PO Box 216, Caulfield South VIC 3162, Australia
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Abstract

As one digs back through the archaeological record, art and other evidence of symbolic behaviour becomes scarcer, so it is much disputed just when human marking behaviour and human language began. Is the fading away a real fact of prehistory, or a distorting effect of selective survival?

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 258 , March 1994, pp. 68 - 74
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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