Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory

Informationen zum Autor Steven Mithen Klappentext This book examines how our understanding of human creativity can be extended by exploring this phenomenon during human evolution and prehistory. Zusammenfassung The book examines how our understanding of human creativity can be extended by exploring this phenomenon during human evolution and prehistory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction: The Archaeological Study of Human Creativity Steven Mithen Perspectives on Creativity Editorial Introduction What is Creativity: a view from the cognitive sciences Margaret Boden Creative thought: a long term perspective Ian Hodder Creative thought in traditional aboriginal society Robert Layton The Evolution of Human Creativity Editorial Introduction The early evolution of creative thinking: evidence from monkeys and apes Richard Byrne Homo: The creative genus? Mark Lake Middle Palaeolithic `creativity': Reflections on an oxymoron? Steven L. Kuhn & Mary C. Stiner A creative explosion? Theory of mind, language and the disembodied mind of the upper Palaeolithic Steven Mithen Creativity in Later Prehistoric Europe Editorial Introduction Creativity's coffin: Innovation in the burial record of Mesolithic Europe Rick J. Schulting Architecture, imagination and the Neolithic world Richard Bradley The conditions of creativity for prehistoric Maltese art Caroline Malone & Simon Stoddart All the King's horses: Assessing cognitive maps in later prehistoric Europe Colin Renfrew

Product details

• Authors: Steven (University of Reading Mithen
• Assisted by: Steven Mithen (Editor), Mithen Steven (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.1998
• EAN: 9780415160964
• ISBN: 978-0-415-16096-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Evolution, prehistory, PSYCHOLOGY / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Early Man, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology, Evolutionary anthropology / Human evolution