nam a22 c 4500 z.168/661009231 nljbp 241011025925.4 cr ||||||||||| 141111s2011 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2011031012 9789027284099 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp BF458 155.7 23 JHM bicssc SOC002010 bisacsh Homo Symbolicus The dawn of language, imagination and spirituality Edited by Christopher S. Henshilwood and Francesco d'Errico Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 ©2011 1 online resource (xi, 237 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Editors’ introduction -- Chapter 1. Pan symbolicus / William C. McGrew -- Chapter 2. The evolution and the rise of human language / E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and William M. Fields -- Chapter 3. The origin of symbolically mediated behaviour / Francesco d'Errico and Christopher S. Henshilwood -- Chapter 4. Middle Stone Age engravings and their significance to the debate on the emergence of symbolic material culture / Christopher S. Henshilwood and Francesco d'Errico -- Chapter 5. Complex cognition required for compound adhesive manufacture in the Middle Stone Age implies symbolic capacity / Lyn Wadley -- Chapter 6. The emergence of language, art and symbolic thinking / João Zilhão -- Chapter 7. The human major transition in relation to symbolic behaviour, including language, imagination, and spirituality / David Sloan Wilson -- Chapter 8. The living as symbols, the dead as symbols / Paul Pettitt -- Chapter 9. Biology and mechanisms related to the dawn of language / George F.R. Ellis -- Chapter 10. The other middle-range theories / Benoît Dubreuil -- Chapter 11. Metarepresentation, Homo religiosus, and Homo symbolicus / Justin L. Barrett The emergence of symbolic culture, classically identified with the European cave paintings of the Ice Age, is now seen, in the light of recent groundbreaking discoveries, as a complex nonlinear process taking root in a remote past and in different regions of the planet. In this book the archaeologists responsible for some of these new discoveries, flanked by ethologists interested in primate cognition and cultural transmission, evolutionary psychologists modelling the emergence of metarepresentations, as well as biologists, philosophers, neuro-scientists and an astronomer combine their research findings. Their results call into question our very conception of human nature and animal behaviour, and they create epistemological bridges between disciplines that build the foundations for a novel vision of our lineage's cultural trajectory and the processes that have led to the emergence of human societies as we know them. Provided by publisher. Anthropological Linguistics Anthropology Cognition and language Evolution of language Henshilwood, Christopher S. editor d'Errico, Francesco editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 9789027211897 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/z.168 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027284099