Cathy Clark, Suzanne Olmstead, and Lisa Schmidt have developed photographic inventories in support of the project. I also gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of the expectant mothers who made it possible for me to explore this hypothesis. Back to text 2. Study of Kostenkian pieces was limited to four casts from Gagarino, two from Avdeevo, and three from Kostenki, courtesy of the Moravian Museum in Brno, Czech Republic. Back to text 3.
Analogy requires only that there be sufficient similarity to justify comparison.
In contrast, a modern photograph or other analog image is a physical transform or record of the energy or light which it captures. Thus, in theory, a continuous physical variable links any realistic image and the original visual information which it represents, even if in practice that link can rarely be reconstructed. If the first images of the human body were created from self-generated information, they necessarily have the structure we observe. Back to text 4. Aqueous reflections were available during the Upper Paleolithic, but the horizontal surface of a natural pool distorts the proportions of full-length human figures in a manner completely at variance with those encountered in the first tradition of image making.