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초록

Steven Mithen reveals the process of the birth of human civilization with the idea of the cognitive fluidity that occurred with the integration of intelligence in various areas of human beings. This study analyzes the aesthetic phenomena of ancient cultures from the perspective of the cognitive fluidity of Steven Mithen, and reveals that art is a highly developed area of abstraction which is a process of union natural history intelligence, social intelligence, and technical intelligence based on human universal psychology. The scope of the study is focused on ancient cultural products, which possess artistic interpretation. The research methods are categorizing the scope of the emergence of cultures that viewed from cognitive fluidity, selecting the images that accorded to it, and surveying to explore general perceptions about the images and the artistry of ancient cultural products. As a result of this study, first, it was confirmed that the "symbol" in the cultural realm was a way of abstract thinking by using metaphors and analogies as a result formed by cognitive fluidity. Second, the term 'times' derived as the main element of artistry revealed that art has its own specific process in which unrealistic and impractical cultural emerges through the narrative imagination depending on cognitive fluidity. Third, the psychological mechanism that combines natural history intelligence, social intelligence and technological intelligence through cognitive fluidity, was shown as a creation of a unique human culture, which are projection, survival, coexistence, and imagination respectively. Fourth, based on the aesthetic inherent features in humans, cultural products in the art field were confirmed to be artistic results involving emotional and social, symbolic values that are beyond functional ones. I hope this study will be a buoy to find the direction and value in art, by expanding the interest in art as a ground for understanding aesthetic universality.

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