Ref ID:	27804
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Hodgson, Derek Watson, Benjamin
Title:	The visual brain and the early depiction of animals in Europe and Southeast Asia
Date:	2015
Source:	World Archaeology
DOI:	10.1080/00438243.2015.1074871
Abstract:	The recent discovery that iconic depictions in caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are more ancient than those from Upper Palaeolithic Europe raises questions as to when such images first arose and why the graphic outcomes from the two locations are so similar. In this paper, we show that these questions can be addressed by exploiting the extensive research carried out over the recent past on the psychology of perception and the neuroscience of the visual brain that allows the proper place of iconic depictions in understanding cognitive evolution to be determined.
Date Created:	2/8/2016
Volume:	47
Number:	5
Page Start:	776
Page End:	791