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Title Settlement, society and cognition in human evolution : landscapes in the mind / [edited by] Fiona Coward (Royal Holloway University of London), Robert Hosfield (University of Reading), Matt Pope (University College London), Francis Wenban-Smith (University of Southampton)
Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 414 pages)
Contents 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
Summary "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 behavior 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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Human evolution -- Social aspects
Human settlements -- History -- To 1500
Cognition and culture -- History -- To 1500
Material culture -- History -- To 1500
Prehistoric peoples.
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
Paleolithic period.
Social archaeology.
Landscape archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
Antiquities, Prehistoric
Cognition and culture
Human evolution -- Social aspects
Human settlements
Landscape archaeology
Material culture
Paleolithic period
Prehistoric peoples
Social archaeology
Evolution
Paläolithikum
Sozialarchäologie
Siedlungsarchäologie
Människans utveckling -- sociala aspekter.
Boplatser.
Förhistoriska människan.
Landskapsarkeologi.
Social arkeologi.
Paleolitisk tid.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Coward, Fiona Susan, editor.
Hosfield, Robert, editor.
Pope, Matthew (Archaeologist), editor.
Wenban-Smith, F. F. (Francis F.), editor.
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