Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution (eBook, ePUB)

Landscapes in Mind
Redaktion: Coward, Fiona

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides a landscape narrative of early hominin evolution, linking conventional material and geographic aspects of the early archaeological record with wider and more elusive social, cognitive and symbolic landscapes. It seeks to move beyond a limiting notion of early hominin culture and behaviour as dictated solely by the environment to present the early hominin world as the outcome of a dynamic dialogue between the physical environment and its perception and habitation by active agents. This international group of contributors presents theoretically informed yet empirically based perspectives on hominin and human landscapes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316213339
• Artikelnr.: 53050950

Inhaltsangabe

1. What use is the Palaeolithic in promoting new prehistoric narratives?
Chris Gosden; 2. Local objects, distant symbols: fission-fusion social
systems and the evolution of human cognition Matt Grove and Robin Dunbar;
3. The extension of social relations in time and space during the
Palaeolithic and beyond Dwight Read and Sander van der Leeuw; 4. Beyond
animality and humanity: landscape, metaphor and identity in the early Upper
Palaeolithic of Central Europe Martin Porr; 5. At the heart of the African
Acheulean: the physical, social and cognitive landscapes of Kilombe John A.
J. Gowlett, James S. Brink, Andy I. R. Herries, Sally Hoare, Isaya Onjala
and Stephen M. Rucina; 6. All in a day's work?: early conflicts in
expertise, life history and time management Anthony Sinclair; 7. To see a
world in a hafted tool: birch-pitch composite technology, cognition and
memory in Neanderthals R. M. Wragg Sykes; 8. Ecological niches,
technological developments and physical adaptations of early humans in
Europe: the handaxe-heidelbergensis hypothesis Nick Ashton; 9. 'Dancing to
the rhythms of the biotidal zone': settlement history and culture history
in Middle Pleistocene Britain Mark J. White; 10. 'Forest furniture' or
'forest managers'?: on Neanderthal presence in Last Interglacial
environments Wil Roebroeks and Corrie C. Bakels; 11. Late Pleistocene
hominin adaptations in Greece Paraskevi Elefanti and Gilbert Marshall; 12.
In search of group identity: Late Pleistocene foragers in northern China
Ofer Bar-Yosef; 13. Handaxe symmetry in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic:
implications for the Acheulean gaze James Cole; 14. Landscapes of the dead:
the evolution of human mortuary activity from body to place in Palaeolithic
Europe Paul Pettitt; 15. Encoding and decoding the message: the case of mid
Upper Palaeolithic female imagery Margherita Mussi; 16. Contextualising the
female image: symbols for common ideas and communal identity in Upper
Palaeolithic societies Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser and Olaf Jöris; 17.
Taking a gamble: alternative approaches to the Mesolithic of western
Scotland Steven Mithen.