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- Book Title
- Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory
- Publication Date
- 1998-09-10
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN
- 9780415160964
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
0415160960
ISBN-13
9780415160964
eBay Product ID (ePID)
756512
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Publication Name
Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory
Language
English
Subject
Archaeology, Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Creative Ability, Anthropology / General
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Science, Psychology
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz
Item Length
6.1 in
Item Width
9.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
97-043350
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
599.938
Table Of Content
ContentsIntroduction: The Archaeological Study of Human Creativity Steven MithenPerspectives on Creativity Editorial IntroductionWhat is Creativity: a view from the cognitive sciences Margaret BodenCreative thought: a long term perspective Ian HodderCreative thought in traditional aboriginal society Robert LaytonThe Evolution of Human Creativity Editorial IntroductionThe early evolution of creative thinking: evidence from monkeys and apes Richard ByrneHomo: The creative genus? Mark LakeMiddle Palaeolithic 'creativity': Reflections on an oxymoron? Steven L. Kuhn & Mary C. StinerA creative explosion? Theory of mind, language and the disembodied mind of the upper Palaeolithic Steven Mithen Creativity in Later Prehistoric Europe Editorial IntroductionCreativity's coffin: Innovation in the burial record of Mesolithic Europe Rick J. SchultingArchitecture, imagination and the Neolithic world Richard BradleyThe conditions of creativity for prehistoric Maltese art Caroline Malone & Simon StoddartAll the King's horses: Assessing cognitive maps in later prehistoric Europe Colin Renfrew
Synopsis
The book examines how our understanding of human creativity can be extended by exploring this phenomenon during human evolution and prehistory., We live in a world surrounded by remarkable cultural achievements of human kind. Almost every day we hear of new innovations in technology, in medicine and in the arts which remind us that humans are capable of remarkable creativity. But what is human creativity? The modern world provides a tiny fraction of cultural diversity and the evidence for human creativity, far more can be seen by looking back into prehistory. The book examines how our understanding of human creativity can be extended by exploring this phenomenon during human evolution and prehistory. The book offers unique perspectives on the nature of human creativity from archaeologists who are concerned with long term patterns of cultural change and have access to quite different types of human behaviour than that which exists today. It asks whether humans are the only creative species, or whether our extinct relatives such as Homo habilis and the Neanderthals also displayed creative thinking. It explores what we can learn about the nature of human creativity from cultural developments during prehistory, such as changes in the manner in which the dead were buried, monuments constructed, and the natural world exploited. In doing so, new light is thrown on these cultural developments and the behaviour of our prehistoric ancestors. By examining the nature of creativity during human evolution and prehistory these archaeologists, supported by contributions from psychology, computer science and social anthropology, show that human creativity is a far more diverse and complex phenomena than simply flashes of genius by isolated individuals. Indeed they show that unless perspectives from prehistory are taken into account, our understanding of human creativity will be limited and incomplete.
LC Classification Number
GN281.4.C74 1998
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