Cities of Dreams: The Rich Legacy of Neanderthal Man Which Shaped Our Civilisation

Rider 1989 Inbunden, skyddsomslag, 278s. 22x14,5cm, 488g. Illustrerad. Mycket gott skick, namnstämpel. Engelsk text. ISBN 0712619259. Contents: Suppose, Red Ochre; Chronology & Geography; Three Ms: The Hunted Maidens; The Dancing Maze; The Spinning Moon; Aboriginal World; Shanidar; Blood on the Skirt; Thirteen Moons; Gone to Spiral Castle; Left Out; Lindow Man; Uncommon Ground; Wild Men; The High Civilisation of Dreams; Biological Imperative; Appendix: Skeletons in our Cupboard ["This book challenges the orthodox view that nothing worth the name civilisation existed prior to the last Ice Age & the subsequent emergence of 'modern' man some 30,000 years ago: Building on solid & accepted archaeological evidence, Gooch argues that, unlike ourselves, Neanderthal man, who flourished during the millenia before the Ice Age, was not at all concerned with permanent structures or developing technology. His attention was directed to the pursuance of complex religious and mythic beliefs and rituals. To use Gooch's phrase, Neanderthal man built only ' cities of dreams'. His very highly evolved culture and civilisation ( capable for instance, of calculating the moon's long-term cycles and the periodicity of the planets) was nevertheless one only of the mind. The book propose's that 'modern man' - patriarchal, sun-worshipping Cro-Magnon - discovered the matriarchal, nocturnal, moon-worshipping Neanderthal, with a long-established and widespread religious 'empire'. Over a period of many thousands of years, Cro-Magnon gradually conquered and wiped out Neanderthal man - but in the process changed his own culture radically and forever.,." - publisher's description]