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Outline of the Out of Eurasia Project
Naoko Matsumoto
2ND\DPD8QLYHUVLW\QDRNRBP#FFRND\DPDXDFMSThe Out of Eurasia project focuses on the human being itself, linking nature and culture, mind andmatter, and human action and cognition, and advances a new theoretical model of the development of
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destinations of +RPRVDSLHQV who left Eurasia and dispersed by overcoming bottlenecks and extreme
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cognitions or behaviors, and the construction of relations with cohabitant species through comparative
analyses. By focusing on material culture belonging to the period of the development of civilization, we
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(ecological position) has been formed. A model of the mutual permeation of matter and mind as mediatedby the body is situated at the core of transdisciplinary research to develop a clearer model to overcome
both biological determinism and cultural relativism.

El proyecto “Fuera of Eurasia” se enfoca en el ser humano en sí, vinculando naturaleza y cultura, mente
y materia, y acción y cognición, y presenta un nuevo modelo teórico del desarrollo de las civilizaciones.
En este proyecto hemos considerado estratégicamente las Américas, el archipiélago japonés y Oceanía,
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especies convivientes a través de análisis comparativos. Centrándonos en la cultura material perteneciente
al período del desarrollo de la civilización, nuestro objetivo es construir una historia integradora de la
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modelo de la permeación mutua de la materia y la mente mediada por el cuerpo es escalable en el núcleo dela investigación transdisciplinaria para desarrollar un modelo más claro que supera tanto el determinismo
biológico como el relativismo cultural.

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