The question of how modern human behaviour emerged from pre-human hominid behaviour is central to discussions of human evolution. This important book argues that the capacity to use signs in a symbolic way, identified by the authors as language, is the basis for behaviour that can be described as human. The book is the product of a unique collaboration between the key disciplines in the debate about human evolution and mentality - psychology and archaeology. It investigates the significance and nature of the emergence of linguistic behaviour. The text critically examines the archaeological record of hominid evolution and argues that linguistic behaviour emerged no earlier than 100,000 years ago. The book's interdisciplinary approach allows critical attention to be given to an impressively broad range of relevant literature. For the first time, all the known pieces of this evolutionary puzzle are examined in detail.
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This interdisciplinary text explores the significance, nature and timing of the evolutionary emergence of human behaviour, which the authors argue is based in linguistic behaviour. The book includes surveys of the archaeological evidence and an impressively broad range of relevant literature.
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In speculating in this way about 'the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity', it is clear that Charles Darwin meant something like, 'how mental capacity emerged in humans through processes of evolution'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Early Upper Pleistocene, Koobi Fora, Terra Amata, High Lodge, Old World, Grotte Vaufrey, Olduvai Gorge, American Sign Language, Berekhat Ram, South Africa, Myr Fossils, New Britain, New World, Van Peer New!
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In speculating in this way about 'the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity', it is clear that Charles Darwin meant something like, 'how mental capacity emerged in humans through processes of evolution'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Early Upper Pleistocene, Koobi Fora, Terra Amata, High Lodge, Old World, Grotte Vaufrey, Olduvai Gorge, American Sign Language, Berekhat Ram, South Africa, Myr Fossils, New Britain, New World, Van Peer New!
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- Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution by Kathleen R. Gibson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Museum: Behind the Scenes at the British Museum by Rupert Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Food Acquisition and Processing in Primates by David John Chivers in Back Matter
- Child Development by Heather Brennand in Back Matter
- High Lodge: Excavations by G. de G. Sieveking 1962-8 and J. Cook, 1988 (Scholarly) by N.M. Ashton in Back Matter
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- Aesthetics and Rock Art by Thomas Heyd in Back Matter
- Meaning and Ideology in Historical Archaeology: Style, Social Identity, and Capitalism in an Australian Town (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) by Heather Burke in Back Matter
- Reader in Archaeological Theory: Post-Processual and Cognitive Approaches (Routledge Readers in Archaeology) by David S. Whitley on page 136
- The Evolution of Culture: A Historical and Scientific Overview by Camilla Power on page 49
- Archaeological Semiotics (Social Archaeology) by Robert W. Preucel in Back Matter
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