Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution : Landscapes in Mind (Hardcover)

1. What use is the Palaeolithic in promoting new prehistoric narratives? Chris Gosden; 2. Local objects, distant symbols: fission-fusion social systems and the evolution of human cognition Matt Grove and Robin Dunbar; 3. The extension of social relations in time and space during the Palaeolithic and beyond Dwight Read and Sander van der Leeuw; 4. Beyond animality and humanity: landscape, metaphor and identity in the early Upper Palaeolithic of Central Europe Martin Porr; 5. At the heart of the African Acheulean: the physical, social and cognitive landscapes of Kilombe John A. J. Gowlett, James S. Brink, Andy I. R. Herries, Sally Hoare, Isaya Onjala and Stephen M. Rucina; 6. All in a day's work?: early conflicts in expertise, life history and time management Anthony Sinclair; 7. To see a world in a hafted tool: birch-pitch composite technology, cognition and memory in Neanderthals R. M. Wragg Sykes; 8. Ecological niches, technological developments and physical adaptations of early humans in Europe: the handaxe-heidelbergensis hypothesis Nick Ashton; 9. 'Dancing to the rhythms of the biotidal zone': settlement history and culture history in Middle Pleistocene Britain Mark J. White; 10. 'Forest furniture' or 'forest managers'?: on Neanderthal presence in Last Interglacial environments Wil Roebroeks and Corrie C. Bakels; 11. Late Pleistocene hominin adaptations in Greece Paraskevi Elefanti and Gilbert Marshall; 12. In search of group identity: Late Pleistocene foragers in northern China Ofer Bar-Yosef; 13. Handaxe symmetry in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: implications for the Acheulean gaze James Cole; 14. Landscapes of the dead: the evolution of human mortuary activity from body to place in Palaeolithic Europe Paul Pettitt; 15. Encoding and decoding the message: the case of mid Upper Palaeolithic female imagery Margherita Mussi; 16. Contextualising the female image: symbols for common ideas and communal identity in Upper Palaeolithic societies Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser and Olaf Joris; 17. Taking a gamble: alternative approaches to the Mesolithic of western Scotland Steven Mithen.