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- Settlement, society and cognition in human evolution
- Frontispiece
- Settlement, society and cognition in human evolution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Chapter 1 Whatuse is the Palaeolithic in promoting new prehistoric narratives?
- Chapter 2 Local objects, distant symbols: fission-fusion social systems and the evolution of human cognition
- Chapter 3 The Extension of Social Relations in Time and Space during the Palaeolithic and beyond
- Chapter 4 Beyond animality and humanity. Landscape, metaphor and identity in the Early Upper Palaeolithic of Central Europe
- Chapter 5 At the Heart of the AfricanAcheulean: the physical, social and cognitivelandscapes of Kilombe
- Chapter 6 All in a day’s work? Early conflicts in expertise, life history and time management
- Chapter 7 To see a world in a hafted tool: birch pitch composite technology, cognitionand memoryin Neanderthals
- Chapter 8 Ecological niches, technological developments and physical adaptations of early humans in Europe: the handaxe-heidelbergensishypothesis
- Chapter 9 ‘Dancing to the Rhythms of the Biotidal Zone’: Settlement history and culture historyin Middle Pleistocene Britain
- Chapter 10 ‘Forest Furniture’ or ‘Forest Managers’? On Neanderthal presence in Last Interglacial environments
- Chapter 11 Late Pleistocene hominin adaptations in Greece
- Chapter 12 In Search of GroupIdentity – Late Pleistocene Foragers in Northern China
- Chapter 13 Handaxe symmetry in theLower and MiddlePalaeolithic: implications for the Acheuleangaze
- Chapter 14 Landscapes of the dead: the evolution of human mortuary activity frombody to place in Palaeolithic Europe
- Chapter 15 Encoding and decoding the message: the case of the Mid Upper Palaeolithic female imagery
- Chapter 16 Contextualising the female image –symbols for common ideas and communalidentity in Upper Palaeolithic Societies
- Chapter 17 Taking a Gamble: alternative approaches to the Mesolithic of western Scotland
- References
- Index
Chapter 1 - Whatuse is the Palaeolithic in promoting new prehistoric narratives?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Settlement, society and cognition in human evolution
- Frontispiece
- Settlement, society and cognition in human evolution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Chapter 1 Whatuse is the Palaeolithic in promoting new prehistoric narratives?
- Chapter 2 Local objects, distant symbols: fission-fusion social systems and the evolution of human cognition
- Chapter 3 The Extension of Social Relations in Time and Space during the Palaeolithic and beyond
- Chapter 4 Beyond animality and humanity. Landscape, metaphor and identity in the Early Upper Palaeolithic of Central Europe
- Chapter 5 At the Heart of the AfricanAcheulean: the physical, social and cognitivelandscapes of Kilombe
- Chapter 6 All in a day’s work? Early conflicts in expertise, life history and time management
- Chapter 7 To see a world in a hafted tool: birch pitch composite technology, cognitionand memoryin Neanderthals
- Chapter 8 Ecological niches, technological developments and physical adaptations of early humans in Europe: the handaxe-heidelbergensishypothesis
- Chapter 9 ‘Dancing to the Rhythms of the Biotidal Zone’: Settlement history and culture historyin Middle Pleistocene Britain
- Chapter 10 ‘Forest Furniture’ or ‘Forest Managers’? On Neanderthal presence in Last Interglacial environments
- Chapter 11 Late Pleistocene hominin adaptations in Greece
- Chapter 12 In Search of GroupIdentity – Late Pleistocene Foragers in Northern China
- Chapter 13 Handaxe symmetry in theLower and MiddlePalaeolithic: implications for the Acheuleangaze
- Chapter 14 Landscapes of the dead: the evolution of human mortuary activity frombody to place in Palaeolithic Europe
- Chapter 15 Encoding and decoding the message: the case of the Mid Upper Palaeolithic female imagery
- Chapter 16 Contextualising the female image –symbols for common ideas and communalidentity in Upper Palaeolithic Societies
- Chapter 17 Taking a Gamble: alternative approaches to the Mesolithic of western Scotland
- References
- Index
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- Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human EvolutionLandscapes in Mind, pp. 1 - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015