David Lewis-Williams





David Lewis-Williams

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Average rating: 4.05 · 256 ratings · 44 reviews · 7 distinct works · Similar authors
The Mind in the Cave: Consc...
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions
Inside the Neolithic Mind: ...
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions
Conceiving God: The Cogniti...
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
Deciphering Ancient Minds: ...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
Shamans of Prehistory
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions
Contested Images
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2.0 of 5 stars 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994
A Cosmos in Stone: Interpre...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002 — 2 editions
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“The economic base of a social formation, the infrastructure, includes the social relations of production the produce the material necessities of life. In doing so, it produces the superstructure, that is, ideology, belief, religion, and juridical controls.”
David Lewis-Williams

“If researchers seek only the kinds of order with which Westerners are today familiar, they will miss, or reject as disorder, all other orders.”
David Lewis-Williams, The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

“Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.”
David Lewis-Williams, The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

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