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This volume consists of the combined proceedings of the 1995 Second Paul & Phyllis Wattis Foundation Endowment Symposium, and the 1993 First Oregon Archaeological Retreat. Papers and their authors are:

• Studying Ancient Visual Cultures, Olga Soffer and Margaret W. Conkey
• Paleolithic Marks: Archaeometric Perspectives, Alan Watchman
• New Laboratory Techniques and Their Impact on Paleolithic Cave Art, Jean Clottes
• Paleolithic Image Making and Symboling in Europe and the Middle East: A Comparative Review, Alexander Marshack
• Substantial Acts: From Materials to Meaning in Upper Paleolithic Representation, Randall White
• The Power of Pictures, Iain Davidson
• Symbolic Expressions in Later Prehistory of the Levant: Why are They so Few?, Ofer Bar-Yosef
• When the Beasts Go Marchin' Out! The End of Pleistocene Art in Cantabrian Spain, Manuel R. Gonzalez Morales
• Art of the Light and Art of the Depths, Jean Clottes
• Carving, Painting, Engraving: Problems with the Earliest Italian Design, Margherita Mussi and Daniela Zampetti
• The Mutability of Upper Paleolithic Art in Central and Eastern Europe: Patterning and Significance, Olga Soffer
• Places of Art: Art and Archaeology in Context, Sylvia Tomaskova
• Archaeological Signatures of the Social Context of Rock Art Production, Andree Rosenfeld
• Processions and Groups: Human Figures, Ritual Occasions and Social Categories in the Rock Paintings of the Western Cape, South Africa, John Parkington and Anthony Manhire
• Harnessing the Brain: Vision and Shamanism in Upper Paleolithic Western Europe, J.D. Lewis-Williams
• Beyond Art and Between the Caves: Thinking about Context in the Interpretive Process, Margaret W. Conkey