Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mithen, Steven

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134720132
• Artikelnr.: 42710526

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