Cognition and material culture : the archaeology of symbolic storage /
Renfrew, Colin,1937-
Scarre, Christopher.
Cambridge, England : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
c1998.
Includes bibliographical references.
Mind and matter: cognitive archaeology and external symbolic storage / Colin Renfrew -- Hominid enculturation and cognitive evolution / Merlin Donald -- Palaeolithic origins of artificial memory systems: an evolutionary perspective / Francesco d'Errico -- Material artefacts, symbolism, sociologists and archaeologists / David Halle -- Mimesis, imagination and role-play / Paul L. Harris -- Rock art: handmaiden to studies of cognitive evolution / Thomas A. Dowson -- Digging for memes: the role of material objects in cultural evolution / Mark Lake -- Personal experience and belief: the significance of external symbolic storage for the emergence of modern human cognition / E. J. Lowe -- The supernatural beings of prehistory and the external storage of religious ideas / Steven Mithen -- Chinese burial patterns: sources of information on thought and belief / Jessica Rawson -- Social relations and the idea of externality / Marilyn Strathern -- Some problems with the notion of external symbolic storage, and the case of neolithic material culture in Britain / Julian Thomas -- Symbolic behaviour: the origin of a spatial perspective / Ezra B. W. Zubrow, Patrick T. Daly -- Mind and artefact: a dialectical perspective / Robert A. Hinde -- Material culture and cognition: concluding thoughts / Merlin Donald.
Picture-writing.
Inscriptions.
Hieroglyphics.
Material culture.