Prehistoric Art and Ideology: Union Internationale Des Sciences Prehistoriques Et Protohistoriques/International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences

Papers from the 'Prehistoric Art and Ideology' session (C27) held at the XV UISPP World Congress, September 2006. Contents: 1) Prehistoric art and ideology (Emmanuel Anati); 2) Deciphering mythological narrations in the rock art of Valcamonica: the rock of the phallus (Emmanuel Anati and Ariela Fradkin); 3) Gravettian burial rites: functional analysis of the lithic grave goods (S. Arrighi and V. Borgia); 4) Animal deities and shamans, warriors and Aesir Gods - rock art of the Nothern Countries - Scandinavia, Finland and Russia (Ulf Bertilsson); 5) Dancing scenes and ideology in the Neolithic Near East (Yosef Garfinkel); 6) Patriarchy and ideology in the rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin (Mateu Escoriza); 7) The symbolism and the wearing fashion of jewellery-pendants during the Bronze Age in Hungary (Katalin Jankovits); 8) Les "arts" megalithiques d'Europe Occidentale: pourquoi une telle diversité? (Jean-Pierre Mohen); 9) How the artistic production of a Prehistoric society can suggest cultural changes and everyday life imagery: the case of the Predynastic Nile Valley (Simona Moscadelli); 10) Evidence for a Muelos belief in African and near East Neolithic mortuary rituals? (Estelle Orrelle); 11) Simboli al femminile: linee parallele e a volta nell'arte rupestre Calcolitica (Umberto Sansoni); 12) Idéologie et symbolisme dans l'art nord-thrace (Valeriu Sirbu); 13) Animals as symbols in Upper Palaeolithic art (Christian Zuchner).