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Papers from the session 'The Intellectual and Spiritual Expression of Non-Literate Societies' given at the XVI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011). Contents: Presentation (Emmanuel Anati);

1) Les adaptations humaines et l'expression spirituelle des premiers Hommes anatomiquement modernes a la transition du Paleolithique moyen au Paleolithique superieur (Janusz K. Kozlowski);
2) The Lipari Middle Paleolithic and early navigation in the Mediterranean (Emmanuel Anati);
3) The Paleolithic sanctuary at Har Karkom, Negev desert (Emmanuel Anati);
4) The Karkomian flint industry: the context of the Har Karkom sanctuary at the transition between Middle and Upper Paleolithic (Federico Mailland);
4) Geoglyphs on Har Karkom plateau: witness to the early start of the expression of conceptual ideas during the early Upper Paleolithic (Federico Mailland);
5) Astronomical representations in rock art: some examples of the cognitive and spiritual processes of non-literate people (Fernando Coimbra);
6) Ancient myths and scientific fiction: the representation of big head in the prehistoric art and its recreation in Western culture (Santiago Guimaraes);
7) The pre-contact pueblo Kachina in the American Southwest: its iconography, first appearances and contexts of symbolic meanings (Jessica Joyce Christie);
8) Deer representation in Sierra da Capivara National Park: morphology, syntax and archaeological contexts: a visual analysis (Elaine Ignacio);
9) Indigenous dolls and figurines: where sacred and social worlds merge and the implications for archaeologists (Sharon Moses);
10) Conveying an understanding of the landscape: the rock art of the Tagus and the Guadiana Valleys (Luiz Oosterbeek);
11) The deer figures in Tagus rock art (Sara Garces);
12) The geometric art of the Iberian schist plaques (Cristina Lopes);
13) Anthropozoomorphic figures and other monsters: mythical fantastic figures in Alpine rock art (Umberto Sansoni);
14) Beliefs and Practices Connected with Megalithic Burial Customs in Eastern India (Ranjana Ray);
15) Substrats neolithiques aux arts traditionnels des Balkans (Marcel Otte).

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