Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution

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Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution

Landscapes in Mind

Archaeological theory Archaeology by period / region Cognition and cognitive psychology

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Language: English

Published by: Cambridge University Press

Published on: 26th January 2015

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 12 Mb

ISBN: 9781316213339


Overview

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.

Objective

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.

Contributors

This international group of contributors presents theoretically informed yet empirically based perspectives on hominin and human landscapes.

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