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  1. Homo symbolicus
    the dawn of language, imagination and spirituality
    Contributor: Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart (Publisher)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Benjamins, Amsterdam [u.a.]

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9789027211897
    RVK Categories: ER 955
    Subjects: Symbolism (Psychology); Human behavior; Language and languages / Origin; Psycholinguistics; Biolinguistics; Sprache; Symbol; Psycholinguistik; Poetik; Historische Sprachwissenschaft; Paläanthropologie; Biolinguistik
    Scope: IX, 237 S., Ill., graph. Darst., 23 cm
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  2. Homo symbolicus
    the dawn of language, imagination and spirituality
    Contributor: Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart (Publisher)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  John Benjamins, Amsterdam

    Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
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    Contributor: Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789027211897; 9789027284099
    RVK Categories: EC 2420
    Subjects: Symbolism (Psychology); Human behavior; Language and languages / Origin; Psycholinguistics; Biolinguistics; Sprache; Symbol; Paläanthropologie; Biolinguistik; Psycholinguistik; Poetik; Historische Sprachwissenschaft
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 242 p.), Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  3. Homo symbolicus
    the dawn of language, imagination and spirituality
    Contributor: Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart (Publisher)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Benjamins, Amsterdam [u.a.]

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Contributor: Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9789027211897
    RVK Categories: ER 955
    Subjects: Symbolism (Psychology); Human behavior; Language and languages / Origin; Psycholinguistics; Biolinguistics; Sprache; Symbol; Psycholinguistik; Poetik; Historische Sprachwissenschaft; Paläanthropologie; Biolinguistik
    Scope: IX, 237 S., Ill., graph. Darst., 23 cm
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  4. Homo symbolicus
    the dawn of language, imagination and spirituality
    Contributor: Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart (Hrsg.)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam

    Includes bibliographical references and index 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... more

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    Includes bibliographical references and index 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 researc

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1283314711; 9789027211897; 9789027284099
    RVK Categories: EC 2420 ; ER 955 ; NF 1129
    Series: Critical human rights
    Subjects: Biolinguistics; Language and languages; Psycholinguistics; Symbolism (Psychology); Human behavior; Symbolism (Psychology); Human behavior.; Language and languages--Origin.; Psycholinguistics.; Biolinguistics.
    Scope: xix, 242 p., Ill., 23 cm
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    Homo Symbolicus; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Editors' introduction; Acknowledgements; 1. Pan Symbolicus; 1. Introduction; 2. Communication does not equal language; 3. Language does not equal speech; 4. Symbol-use does not equal language; 5. Non-human language does not equal human language; 6. Pan symbolicus; References; 2.The evolution and the rise of human language; 1. Introduction; 2. Biological humanness; 3. Ape language and ape culture; 4. Maternal infant carriage and interaction as substrate of human agency; 5. Self-agency and the duality of consciousness; 6. Conclusion

    References3.The origin of symbolically mediated behaviour; 1. Introduction; 2. First instances of symbolic material culture and their implications; 3. Demography as a triggering factor?; 4. Climate as a triggering factor; 5. Discussion; Acknowledgements; References; 4. Middle Stone Age engravings and their significance to the debate on the emergence of symbolic material culture; 1. Introduction; 2. Howiesons Poort techno-tradition; 2.1 Diepkloof Rock Shelter; 2.1.1 Archaeological context and dating; 3. Diepkloof engraved ostrich eggshells; 4. Still Bay techno-tradition; 4.1 Blombos Cave

    4.1.1 Archaeological context and dating5. Blombos engraved ochre; 6. Contrasting the significance of early engravings; Acknowledgements; References; 5.Complex cognition required for compound adhesive manufacture in the Middle Stone Age implies symbolic capacity; 1. Introduction; 2. What is complex cognition?; 3. What gave rise to complex cognition?; 4. The archaeological evidence; 5. Replicated compound adhesive manufacture: Methods; 6. Compound adhesive manufacture as a proxy for modern cognition; Reference; 6.The emergence of language, art and symbolic thinking; 1. Introduction

    2. Neandertal-ness3. Paradigm lost; 4. Paradigm found; 5. Conclusion; References; 7.The human major transition in relation to symbolic behaviour, including language, imagination, and spirituality; 1. What is a major evolutionary transition?; 2. Human evolution as a major transition; 3. Cognitive teamwork and simple forms that preceded more advanced forms; 4. Language, imagination, and spirituality; 5. Testable predictions; References; 8.The living as symbols, the dead as symbols; 1. Introduction: Living symbols, dead symbols

    2. Problematising the archaeological debate: Symbolic revolutions that were or were not3. Material culture symbols among the living; 4. The dead as symbols; 5. The evolution of Homo symbolicus: Gradual, abrupt, or fragmentary?; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 9.Biology and mechanisms related to the dawn of language; 1. The Functional and Structural Context; 2. The Nature of Language: Crucial Features; 2.1 An embodied symbolic system; 2.2 Equivalence class of representations and embodiment; 2.3 Key features of language; 3. Hierarchical Structuring; 3.1 Functional structure

    3.2 Bottom-up and top-down causation