Luminous Debris

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  INTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART I—  SILEX
 Terra Amata
 Reading Prehistory:  The Search for Antecedents
 collapse sectionThe First Hunters and the Last
 A Shouldered, Laurel-Leaf Point (Pointe à Cran) Pressure-Flaked over Both Surfaces.
 A Transverse, Trapezoidal Arrowhead of Tiny, Microlithic Dimensions.
 An Exceptionally Long, Almond-Shaped Arrowhead, Perfectly Bisymmetrical, Showing Traces of the Original Resin with Which It Was Ligated.
 An Arrowhead in Rippling, Honey-Brown, Zoned Silex, Barbed and Tanged to a Profile That's Often Compared to That of a Christmas Tree.
 Neolithicizing Provence:  Cardial, a Culture That Came from the Sea
 Archeological Rhetoric
 Moon Goddess:  Speculations on a Pictograph
 The Skull with the Seashell Ear
 West-Southwest
 A Twilight Industry
 Stelae:  The Emergence of Human Figuration

 collapse sectionPART II—  BRONZE, AND SOON AFTER, IRON
 On a Bronze Age Earring
 Echoes in Clay:  Interpreting Pictographs in Late Bronze Age Ceramics
 Baby Burials:  Domestic Inhumation in the Iron Age
 Terremare
 collapse sectionOn the Longevity of Toponyms
 I
 II
 The Cult of Skulls:  From Severance to Sculpture

 collapse sectionPART III—  UNDER THE RAISED TRELLISES
 Negative Architecture
 Undulant-Oblique:  A Study of Wave Patterns on Ionico-Massalian Pottery
 collapse sectionTracking Hannibal
 I
 II
 What the Thunder Said
 Aeria the Evanescent
 Votive Mirrors:  A Reflection
 Dream Incubation:  The Temple at Riez
 Fervor and Residue:  Chastelard-Lardiers
 Le Pont Flavien:  An Instance of Passage

 collapse sectionPART IV—  AQUAEDUCTUS
 collapse sectionAquaeductus
 I
 II
 III

 collapse sectionNotes
 Terra Amata
 The First Hunters and the Last
 Neolithicizing Provence: Cardial, a Culture That Came from the Sea
 Archeological Rhetoric
 Moon Goddess: Speculations on a Pictograph
 The Skull with the Seashell Ear
 West-Southwest
 A Twilight Industry
 Stelae: The Emergence of Human Figuration
 Echoes in Clay: Interpreting Pictographs in Late Bronze Age Ceramics
 Baby Burials: Domestic Inhumation in the Iron Age
 Terremare
 On the Longevity of Toponyms
 The Cult of Skulls: From Severance to Sculpture
 Negative Architecture
 Undulant-Oblique: A Study of Wave Patterns on Ionico-Massalian Pottery
 Tracking Hannibal
 What the Thunder Said
 Aeria the Evanescent
 Votive Mirrors: A Reflection
 Dream Incubation: The Temple at Riez
 Le Pont Flavien: An Instance of Passage
 Aquaeductus
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