Record details

• ISBN: 0500050813
• ISBN: 9780500050811
• Physical Description: 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
• Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson, ©1996.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-283) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Why ask an archaeologist about the human mind? -- 2. The drama of our past -- 3. The architecture of the modern mind -- 4. A new proposal for the mind's evolution -- 5. Apes, monkeys and the mind of the missing link -- 6. The mind of the first stone toolmaker -- 7. The multiple intelligences of the early human mind -- 8. Trying to think like a Neanderthal -- 9. The big bang of human culture: the origins of art and religion -- 10. So how did it happen? -- 11. The evolution of the mind -- Epilogue: the origins of agriculture.

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Subject:

Genetic psychology.
Cognition.
Brain > Evolution.
Social evolution.
Thought and thinking.
Art, Prehistoric.
Language and languages > Origin.
Biological Evolution.
Hominidae.
Mental Processes.