Steven Mithen (ed.)

Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory

Herausgeber: Mithen, Steven

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how our understanding of human creativity can be extended by exploring this phenomenon during human evolution and prehistory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780415160964
• ISBN-10: 0415160960
• Artikelnr.: 22322765

Autorenporträt

Steven Mithen

Inhaltsangabe

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