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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2011.
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Colección: | Critical human rights.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.