Word: marshack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reproductions crafted by Douglas Mazonowicz, an artist and writer who has studied rock art around the world. Perhaps most impressive of all are the full-size replicas of Cro-Magnon man's sculptures. Some are so meticulously copied that even the exhibit's sharp-eyed curator, Alexander Marshack, has difficulty telling reproduction from real...
...Crimson regrets printing several errors of fact in a December 16 article about Alexander Marshack's research into the origins of human communications. Cro-Magnon man is a member of Homo sapiens sapiens, and not a different species. The Upper Paleolithic era dates from 35,000 to 10,000 B.C., and not from 10,000 to 8000 B.C. as reported. The Achevlian rib engravings are not exactly the same kind as those done in the Upper Paleolithic, but are made in the same way over a period of time...
...addition, Marshack said that engravings on a five inch section of an ox rib, in 135,000 B.C. during the Achevlian period, were of "exactly the same kind" as those during the Paleolithie period...
...implications of this could be fantastically important in tracing the origin of language.) but these are implications of something that has only been tentatively presented." Marshack said...
...Marshack concluded, "The definition of an art work is an image made. What I'm finding is not an image made to be looked at, but made as a symbol to be used and added...