title: Prehistoric Art: The Symbolic Journey of Humankind
author:  Randall White 
description: With academic subheadings like "Powers of Observation and the Space-Time Continuum," this is a comprehensive overview of prehistoric art, not a casual coffee-table book. White, director of the nonprofit Institute for Ice Age Studies, is a New York University anthropologist, and he offers a history of global excavations, the art and the peoples who made it, while also exploring the meanings of the symbols and the social system in which they were crafted. One of his stated goals with this effort is to "illustrate how a modern Western notion of `art' impedes an understanding of the emergence and adaptive value of the earliest representations in any given region." But 226 full-color illustrations give plenty of opportunity for simply marveling: a pointillist bison; face-to-face woolly mammoths in simple black lines; a 26,000-year-old ivory carving of a human skull. The result is a book that provides a journey as real as it is symbolic, demonstrating the evolutionary power of imagery. <br />Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # Man from the Moon
  
  
  ### Otis Adelbert Kline
  
  
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  Amazing Stories, October, 1930
  
  
  LOOKING forward is always an interesting occupation, for the imagination can
  be given absolute free play and so many seemingly fantastic pictures may be
  called into being. But equally absorbing can be the process of looking
  backward, though it must be done with considerably less freedom of
  imagination. What was the origin of races? Did all of us—Yellow, Black and
  White—start our generations in similar manner? How far afield of the truth are
  anthropologists? Otis Adelbert Kline has pondered on these questions and,
  being a writer of no mean ability, it naturally follows that his story is well
  worth serious consideration. Therefore me recommend it heartily, knowing that
  you will agree with us.
  
  
  WE stood on the eastern rim of Crater Mound—my f