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Homo symbolicus : the dawn of language, imagination and spirituality /

The emergence of symbolic culture, classically identified with the European cave paintings of the Ice Age, is now seen, in the light of recent groundbreaking discoveries, as a complex nonlinear process taking root in a remote past and in different regions of the planet. In this book the archaeologis...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart, D'Errico, Francesco
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2011.
Colección:Critical human rights.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Pan symbolicus: a cultural primatologists viewpoint / William C. McGrew
  • The evolution of the rise of human language: carry the baby / E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh & William M. Fields
  • The origin of symbolically mediated behaviour: from antagonistic scenarios to a unified research strategy / Francesco d'Errico & Christopher S. Henshilwood
  • Middle Stone Age engravings and their significance to the debate on the emergence of symbolic material culture / Christopher S. Henshilwood & Francesco d'Errico
  • Complex cognition required for compound adhesive manufacture in the Middle Stone Age implies symbolic capacity / Lyn Wadley
  • The emergence of language, art and symbolic thinking: a Neandertal test of competing hypotheses / João Zilhão
  • The human major transition in relation to symbolic behaviour, including language, imagination, and spirituality / David Sloan Wilson
  • The living as symbols, the dead as symbols: problematising the scale and pace of hominin symbolic evolution / Paul Pettitt
  • Biology and mechanisms related to the dawn of language / George F.R. Ellis
  • The other middle-range theories: mapping behaviour and the evolution of the mind / Benoît Dubreuil
  • Metarepresentation, Homo religiosus, and Homo symbolicus / Justin L. Barrett.