| Description |
1 online resource (329 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One Beginnings -- 1 The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Symbolizing -- 2 The Origin of Counting: A Rethinking of Upright Posture -- 3 Paleolithic Semiotics: Behavioral Analogs to Speech in Acheulean Sites -- 4 Analogy, Language, and the Symbolic Process -- Part Two Persistence and Congruity -- 5 Red Ocher in the Paleolithic -- 6 Philosophy of the Corpse: Modes of Disposal and Their Cultural Correlates -- 7 "Neolithic" Patterns of Face Representation: A Neuro-Evolutionary Ecological Study -- 8 Cognitive Cores and Flint Flakes -- Part Three Figuration -- 9 Corralling Life -- 10 Representation of Movement in Upper Paleolithic Figurative Art -- 11 Symbols and Sacred Images of Old Europe -- Part Four Abstraction -- 12 A Neolithic Sign System in Southeastern Europe -- 13 The Birth and Life of Signs -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Subject |
Signs and symbols.
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Prehistoric peoples.
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Social evolution.
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symbols.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Prehistoric peoples
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Signs and symbols
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Social evolution
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Botscharow, Lucy
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| ISBN |
9781000231113 |
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1000231119 |
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9780429312311 |
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0429312318 |
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9781000267051 |
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1000267059 |
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9781000302998 |
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1000302997 |
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