The Cradle of Humanity
Prehistoric Art and Culture

A radically interdisciplinary--anthropological, theological, philosophical, aesthetic--inquiry into the origins of human consciousness, community, and potential.

Bataille's work provides a model for interdisciplinary inquiry in our own day, a universal imagination and thought for our own potential community. The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture speaks to philosophers and historians of thought, to anthropologists interested in the history of their discipline and in new methodologies, to theologians and religious comparatists interested in the origins and nature of man's encounter with the sacred, and to art historians and aestheticians grappling with the place of prehistory in the canons of art.