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Electricity all around
\"Simple text and full-color photographs provide a brief introduction to electricity\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Meaning of the Dots on the Horses of Pech Merle
Recent research in the DNA of prehistoric horses has resulted in a new interpretation of the well-known panel of the Spotted horses of Pech Merle. The conclusion that has been popularized by this research is that the artists accurately depicted the animals as they saw them in their environment. It has long been evident that some artists of the European Ice Age caves were able to realize graphic memesis to a remarkable degree. This new study of the genome of ancient horses appears to confirm the artist’s intention of creating the actual appearance of dappled horses. I will question this conclusion as well as the relevance of this study to the art by examining the Spotted horses in the context of the entire panel and the panel in the context of the whole cave. To further enlarge our view, I will consider the use of similar dots and dappling in the rock art of other paleolithic people. The visual effect of dots will be seen in terms of their psychological impact. Discoveries by neuroscientists regarding the effect of such stimuli on human cognition will be mentioned. I will conclude with another possible interpretation of the meaning of the Spotted horses of Pech Merle.
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Comments : a further look at stories about rock art
Offers a response to Oscar Moro Abadía's essay \"Rock art stories : standard narratives and their alternatives,\" which appears in \"Rock Art Research\" 30:2. This is a serious scholarly survey of opinions about the history of pre-historic imagery. Moro Abadía's paper includes many of the important names in archaeology and related fields. His emphasis is on narratives about Pleistocene art, narratives necessary to create an apparent order out of randomly discovered and mostly undated discoveries. I would suggest that the author needed to make a qualification right at the beginning to clarify that he is writing only about pre-historic figurative imagery so as to acknowledge the much more abundant non-figurative imagery that occurs worldwide. [Revised Publication Abstract]
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Apatosaurus
\"Describes how the Apatosaurus was discovered, how paleontologists study its bones, and what the fossil evidence tells us about dinosaur behavior\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Stegosaurus
\"Describes how the Stegosaurus was discovered, how paleontologists study its bones, and what the fossil evidence tells us about this plant-eating dinosaur with plates\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Triceratops
\"Describes how the Triceratops was discovered, how paleontologists study its bones, and what the fossil evidence tells us about the behavior of this three-horned plant-eating dinosaur\"-- Provided by publisher.
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