Ancestral images : the iconography of human origins

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Label

Ancestral images : the iconography of human origins

Title remainder

the iconography of human origins

Statement of responsibility

Stephanie Moser ; foreword by Clive Gamble

Creator

• Moser, Stephanie

Subject

• Kunst
• Ikonographie
• Adam und Eva
• Mythos (Motiv)
• Oorsprong
• Missbildung (Motiv)
• Antike (Motiv)
• Homme préhistorique -- Ouvrages illustrés
• Mensen
• Bildliche Darstellung
• Ikonographie
• Human evolution -- Pictorial works | History
• Beeldende kunsten
• Iconografie
• Mensch (Motiv)
• Mensch (Motiv)
• Oorsprong
• Prehistoric peoples -- Pictorial works | History
• Homme -- Évolution | Ouvrages illustrés | Histoire
• Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Volk (Motiv)
• Mensen
• Iconografie
• Beeldende kunsten

Genre

• Bildliche Darstellung
• Ouvrages illustrés

Language

eng

Summary

Pictorial reconstructions of ancient human ancestors have twin purposes: to make sense of shared ancestry and to bring prehistory to life. Stephanie Moser analyzes the close relationship between representations of the past and theories about human evolution, showing how this relationship existed even before a scientific understanding of human origins developed. How did mythological, religious, and historically inspired visions of the past, in existence for centuries, shape this understanding? Moser treats images as primary documents, and her book is illustrated with more than a hundred engravings, paintings, photographs, and reconstructions

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

GN746

LC item number

.M67 1998

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography