“Sympathetic hunting magic seems to be sufficient to explain all, or practically all, the cave paintings. The figures of men enraged in the ‘animal dances’ are a second-term magic. We may imagine that, as is still the case among modern savages, dances in which men impersonated the animals of the chase were a necessary prelude to every hunt.”
Bibby traces consecutively the movements and the flowering culture of our early ancestors from the Alps north to Scandinavia, and from Russia to Ireland—from the cave-dwellers of France to the "barbarian" tribes described by Casar and Tacitus and the Viking sagas.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 414 pages. Dust jacket in fair condition with chipping and tearing—in protector. Boards clean with bumping to corners. Some crushing at spine ends. Binding tight and square. Pages slightly tanned. Nice copy.
