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Developments in quaternary science ; 16 |
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Developments in Quaternary science ; 16.
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| Summary |
Innovation and creativity are two of the key characteristics that distinguish cultural transmission from biological transmission. This book explores a number of questions concerning the nature and timing of the origins of human creativity. What were the driving factors in the development of new technologies? What caused the stasis in stone tool technological innovation in the Early Pleistocene? Were there specific regions and episodes of enhanced technological development, or did it occur at a steady pace where ancestral humans lived? The authors are archaeologists who address these questions, armed with data from ancient artefacts such as shell beads used as jewelry, primitive musical instruments, and sophisticated techniques required to fashion certain kinds of stone into tools. Providing 'state of art' discussions that step back from the usual archaeological publications that focus mainly on individual site discoveries, this book presents the full picture on how and why creativity in Middle to Late Pleistocene archeology/anthropology evolved. Gives a full, original and multidisciplinary perspective on how and why creativity evolved in the Middle to Late PleistoceneEnhances our understanding of the big leaps forward in creativity at certain times. Assesses the intellectual creativity of Homo erectus, H. neanderthalensis, and H. sapiens via their artefacts. |
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Includes index. |
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Front Cover; Developments in Quaternary Science; Origins of Human Innovation and Creativity; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1 -- Origins of Human Innovation and Creativity: Breaking Old Paradigms; 1.1. THE PROBLEM OF STASIS IN STONE TOOL TECHNOLOGY; 1.2. THE EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY OF CREATIVITY; 1.3. EMERGENT PATTERNS OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN EARLY TECHNOLOGIES; 1.4. CONCLUDING REMARKS; REFERENCES; Chapter 2 -- Creativity and Complex Society Before the Upper Palaeolithic Transition; 2.1. A DEFINITION; 2.2. MODELLING THE HOMININ MIND |
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2.3. THE NUMBER OF MINDS AND THE EVOLUTION OF CREATIVITY2.4. SOCIAL BRAINS AND ACTIVE PERSONAL NETWORKS; 2.5. CREATIVITY, THE SENSES AND SOCIAL COMPLEXITY; 2.6. CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 3 -- North African Origins of Symbolically Mediated Behaviour and the Aterian; 3.1. INTRODUCTION; 3.2. SYMBOLISM AND HUMANS; 3.3. NORTH AFRICA DURING THE MSA AND THE ATERIAN; 3.4. A REVISED CHRONOLOGY FOR THE ATERIAN; 3.5. INNOVATIONS IN THE ATERIAN; 3.5. ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT FOR DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ATERIAN; 3.6. DISCUSSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES |
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Chapter 4 -- Personal Ornaments and Symbolism Among the Neanderthals4.1. INTRODUCTION; 4.2. "NEANDERTHAL BEHAVIOUR": THE MID-20TH CENTURY KNOWLEDGE BASE AND THE HUMAN REVOLUTION; 4.3. NEANDERTHAL SYMBOLISM: THE LAST DECADE OF RESEARCH; 4.4. ONGOING CONTROVERSIES: WHY?; 4.5. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 5 -- Invention, Reinvention and Innovation: The Makings of Oldowan Lithic Technology; 5.1. INTRODUCTION; 5.2. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE CREATIVE?; 5.3. A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE OLDOWAN; 5.4. "SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW"; 5.5. CONCLUDING REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES |
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Chapter 6 -- Emergent Patterns of Creativity and Innovation in Early Technologies6.1. INTRODUCTION; 6.2. CONCLUSION: SOME METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 7 -- The Evolutionary Ecology of Creativity; 7.1. MODERN HUMANS AS A 'MAJOR TRANSITION' IN EVOLUTION; 7.2. PAIR-BONDING AND COURTSHIP DISPLAYS; 7.3. FORAGING STRATEGY AND INFORMATION-SHARING; 7.4. THE EMERGENCE OF PHENOTYPIC THOUGHT; 7.5. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ALTERNATIVE REALITY; 7.6. CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES |
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Chapter 8 -- Climate, Creativity and Competition: Evaluating the Neanderthal 'glass ceiling.'8.1. INTRODUCTION; 8.2. POSSIBLE CAUSES AND SCALES OF CHANGE; 8.3. SOCIAL PROCESSES OF POPULATION EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION; 8.4. PRECISION AND ACCURACY IN DATING THE SPREAD OF BEHAVIOURAL NOVELTY; 8.5. NEANDERTHAL INNOVATIONS; 8.6. NEANDERTHALS, CLIMATIC CHANGE AND INNOVATION; 8.7. FUTURE DIRECTIONS; NOTE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Index |
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Creative ability.
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Technological innovations.
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Human evolution.
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Evolutionary psychology.
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Creativity |
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Créativité.
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Innovations.
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Êtres humains -- Évolution.
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Psychologie évolutionniste.
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creativity.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Creative Ability.
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SELF-HELP -- Creativity.
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Creative ability
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Evolutionary psychology
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Human evolution
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Technological innovations
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| Added Author |
Elias, Scott A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780444538215 0444538216 |
| ISBN |
9780444538222 (electronic bk.) |
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0444538224 (electronic bk.) |
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9780444538215 (electronic bk.) |
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0444538216 (electronic bk.) |
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128223403X |
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9781282234031 |
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AU@ 000050015377 |
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CHBIS 009942936 |
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CHVBK 303938595 |
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DEBBG BV042308391 |
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DEBSZ 371032946 |
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DEBSZ 482465484 |
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NZ1 15190838 |
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DKDLA 820050-katalog:9920606487505762 |
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