300
during the convergence and/or separation of hominid cultures, Homo sapiens and
H. neanderthalensis, when simple, noble, silent communion with other species was
transformed, and depicted. Such representations span tens of thousands of years of
complex, largely undeciphered annotation. A transmogrification from soft and humble presence to that of imagined valor on a killing field. This dialectic—evincing the
divining rod of all paradoxes—continues to haunt not only art historians, but our
every move (Fig. 32.4).
Fig. 32.4 Solitaire among the Werehpai Cave Petroglyphs, Southern Suriname, ca. 4200–5000
BP. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
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during the convergence and/or separation of hominid cultures, Homo sapiens and
H. neanderthalensis, when simple, noble, silent communion with other species was
transformed, and depicted. Such representations span tens of thousands of years of
complex, largely undeciphered annotation. A transmogrification from soft and humble presence to that of imagined valor on a killing field. This dialectic—evincing the
divining rod of all paradoxes—continues to haunt not only art historians, but our
every move (Fig. 32.4).
Fig. 32.4 Solitaire among the Werehpai Cave Petroglyphs, Southern Suriname, ca. 4200–5000
BP. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
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