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Title
Bataille's Paleolithic Detour: Reinventing the Sacred for the Twenty‐First Century.
Abstract
The article discusses the engagement of French intellectual Georges Bataille with Paleolithic art and religion. Topics include challenges posed by the Paleolithic detour, the position of Bataille that the study of prehistory must rely on archaeological evidence in the same way that it had for over a century, and reason for the prehistoric detour.