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Settlement, society and cognition in human evolution : landscapes in mind /

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...

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Other Authors: Coward, Fiona Susan (Editor), Hosfield, Robert (Editor), Pope, Matthew (Archaeologist) (Editor), Wenban-Smith, F. F. (Francis F.) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
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.
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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.
Physical Description:xxviii, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-406) and index.
ISBN:9781107026889 (hardback)
1107026881 (hardback)