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Signs of Consciousness: Speculations on the Psychology of Paleolithic Graphics J. A. Cheyne Part I: Introduction and Overview of "Signs of Consciousness" Graphics in an Iconic Culture Part II: Perception and the Interpretation of Signs Venus Figures as Metonymic Icons Peirception and Consciousness The Search for Positive Identification Part III: Graphics and the Cultural "Lag" in the Late-Middle Paleolithic The Role of Technological Developments in the Late Paleolithic Part I: Paleolithic Graphic Images: Based the …

…ast two sets of very different but interrelated questions. One set of questions concerns the techniques of etching, carving, applying pigments, etc.(Vandiver, 1983; Lechtman, 1977; Lorblanchet, 1980, 1991). The second set of questions concerns the perceptual, cognitive and action systems enabling the activity! (Davis, 1986, 1987; Halverson, 1987, 1992; Kennedy, 1976). A critical question that cuts across the previous set of questions and constitutes a challenge for any understanding of the emergence of graphics is that of timing. Why and how ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**