David Lewis-Williams Quotes

To understand the ‘wounded men’ of Upper Palaeolithic art, I now consider somatic hallucinations; these include attenuation of the body and limbs, polymelia (having extra limbs or digits), and, the one on which I focus, pricking and stabbing sensations.

David Lewis-Williams

• Men
• Art
• Wounded
• Upper Palaeolithic

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• To understand the ‘wounded men’ of Upper Palaeolithic art, I now consider somatic hallucinations; these include attenuation of the body and limbs, polymelia (having extra limbs or digits), and, the one on which I focus, pricking and stabbing sensations.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Men
  • Art
  • Wounded