The Dream on the Rock : Visions of Prehistory.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Foundations of the Research -- The "Religious" Problem and the Origins of Consciousness -- The Entoptic Phenomena -- The Psychoactive "Psychedelic" Substances -- Origins of Shamanism -- Evolutionary Models -- 2 Sites of the Research -- Preface -- The American Colorado Plateau -- Latin America -- Tassili in the Sahara Desert -- Far-Eastern Siberia -- Europe and the New Sites -- The Cup Marks Phenomenon -- 3 The Significance of the Research -- Rock Art and Psychology -- Foundation Myths -- The Crisis of the Cultural Paradigm -- 4 Origins of Psychedelia (Peter Webster) -- The Most Human Universal -- What Makyth a Man? -- Evolutionary Scenario -- Genetics to the Rescue -- The Trigger Event -- Climate Change -- The Long Winter -- Ethiopia -- Notes -- Index.

Examines the relationship between rock art, shamanism, and the origins of human existence.

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