Cognition and material culture : the archaeology of symbolic storage /
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Cambridge:
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
1998
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Table of Contents:
- Colin Renfrew Mind and matter : cognitive archaeology and external symbolic storage
- Merlin Donald Hominid enculturation and cognitive evolution
- Francesco dʹErrico Palaeolithic origins of artificial memory systems : an evolutionary perspective
- David Halle Material atefacts, symbolism, sociologists and archaeologists
- Paul L. Harris Mimesis, imagination and role - play
- Thomas A. Dowson Rock art : handmaiden to studies of cognitive evolution
- Mark Lake Digging for Memes : the role of material objects in cultural evolution
- E. J. Lowe Personal experience and belief : the significance of external symbolic storage for the emergence of modern human cognition
- Steven Mithen The supernatural beings of prehistory and the external storage of religious ideas
- Jessica Rawson Chinese burial patterns : sources of inforrmation on thought and belief
- Marilyn Strathern Social relations and the idea of externality
- Julian Thomas Some problems with the notion of external symbolic storage,and the case of neolithic material culture in Britain
- Ezra B.W.Zubrow & Patrick T. Daly Symbolic behaviour : the origin of a spatial perspective
- Robert A. Hine Mind and artefact : a dialectical perspective
- Merlin Donald Material culture and cognition : concluding thoughts