The Cave and the Cathedral: How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man
Join researcher and scientist Amir D. Aczel on a time-traveling journey through the past and discover what the ancient caves of France and Spain may reveal about the origin of language, art, and human thought as he illuminates one of the greatest mysteries in anthropology.
"A well-researched and highly readable exploration of one of the most spectacular manifestations of the unique human creative spirit–and one of its most intriguing mysteries."
—Ian Tattersall, Curator, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, and author of The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution
Book details
- Author
- Amir Aczel
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 264
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- Social Science › Anthropology › Cultural & Social
- Topics
- cave art · Paleolithic era · prehistoric archaeology · ancient art history · human origins · cultural anthropology · origin of language · cave paintings
- ISBN-13
- 9780470373538
About the author
AMIR D. ACZEL was an Israeli-born American author of more than fifteen popular science and mathematics books, including the international bestseller Fermat’s Last Theorem. His other books include The Cave and the Cathedral, The Jesuit and the Skull and Descartes’s Secret Notebook.
Aczel held a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, awarded in 2004. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a doctorate in statistics from the University of Oregon.
Aczel taught mathematics and history of science at Bentley College and the University of Alaska, and served as a research fellow in the history of science at Boston University and a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 2005 to 2007. He was born in Haifa, Israel, and died in Nîmes, France.
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