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Cognition and Material Culture

The Archaeology of Symbolic Storage

Colin Renfrew ,

 
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Cognition and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Symbolic Storage
Cognition and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Symbolic Storage

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The material expression of human cognitive development is one of the most exciting and important fields of current archaeological research, exemplified most clearly by the attention given in recent years to the emergence of modern humans. But what of the cognitive changes which have taken place since the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic? The present volume, the result of a conference held in Cambridge in 1996, takes as its starting point the provocative study 'Origins of the Modern Mind' by Merlin Donald, and addresses the question of cognitive change in recent millennia through the development and role of material symbols in holding and conveying information and ideas - Donald's concept of 'External Symbolic Storage'. The case studies presented here range from Upper Palaeolithic Europe to Bronze Age China and twentieth-century New York, and bring together archaeologists, psychologists, a philosopher, a sociologist and an animal behaviourist. 'Cognition and Material Culture' illustrates the important contribution made by these diverse disciplines to a fuller understanding of the nature of being human, and highlights the crucial role played by material symbols.
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