[Stones] scholarship

[Merryn Dineley]

I thought the abstract art forms were a part of what is called entoptic 
phenomena. That is, the shapes that the brain creates when one spends a 
long time in the dark - sensory deprivation.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoptic_phenomenon

Merryn

Ric wrote:
> find i can't really take this 'self awareness' theory, /ipso facto,/ 
> seriously. scientifically, /homo sapiens /has not altered 
> significantly since the Old Stone Age, and we are all of this species. i 
> especially love the Palaeolithic cave painting in France; if we were 
> safely allowed in Lascaux, i should go. i have my own pet theories on 
> what this art 'means', but haven't the faintest idea what the - for 
> example - non-representational 'claviform', and other abstract symbolism 
> means - some of which looks quite sinister to me; whereas the animal 
> forms are a delight to the eye, i find. Britain now has its own 
> (identified) parietal art - Creswell Crags - can't wait to see this :)
> 
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> http://zinken.typepad.com/palaeo/images/ArtChurchHole-1.jpg
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> /Ric/
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> // 
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> 
> --- On *Tue, 17/6/08, Ric /<megalith6 at yahoo.co.uk>/* wrote:
> 
>     From: Ric <megalith6 at yahoo.co.uk>
>     Subject: Re: [Stones] scholarship
>     To: "The Stones Mailing List" <stones at stoneslist.org.uk>
>     Date: Tuesday, 17 June, 2008, 11:35 PM
> 
>     --- On *Fri, 13/6/08, ewc /<ewc at onetel.net>/* wrote:
> 
> 
>     I think it was in 'Death, identity and the body in Neolithic Britain'
>     where
>     JT advanced three separate matters I had trouble with
> 
>     1) His notion that the move from communal to individual burial at
>     the end of
>     the British Neolithic was evidence for the (psychological)
>     development of
>     individual awareness - writing as if he had substantive evidence that
>     Neolithic man was somehow not self aware - when he has none
> 
>     2) His notion that heightened self awareness is particular to modern
>     Western
>     cultures, and was/(is?) lacking in the orient. This showed a gross
>     ignorance
>     of oriental history imo.
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>     /1 ] i have always thought the move away from/ long barrows/ to/
>     round barrows/ indicates a move away from a sense of community
>     (ancestors), towards a sense of clans (chiefs), which is just my
>     theory, and i cannot prove it/
> 
>     // 
> 
>     /2] JT awards Lao Tse no sense of heightened self-awareness?/
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>     http://www.iging.com/laotse/LaotseE.htm
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