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Title:

The genesis of creativity and the origin of the human mind / Barbora P¿ta, V©Łclav Soukup, (eds.) ; authorial team, Ariela Fradkin Anati [and 22 others] ; translation from Czech by Dan Morgan, from German by Robert Russel, from Spanish by Ivan Gutierrez.

Publisher:

Charles University in PragueKarolinum Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

333 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm

Subject:

Art, Prehistoric.
Culture--Origin.
Social evolution.
Cognition and culture.
Creative ability.
Human evolution.
Thought and thinking.
Prehistoric peoples.
Paleontology--Pleistocene.
Brain--Evolution.
Paleolithic period.

Other Authors:

P¿ta, Barbora, editor of compilation.
Soukup, V©Łclav, 1957- editor of compilation.
Anati, Ariela Fradkin, author of chapter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

From animal to humans : anthropogenesis as a subject of scientific research / V©Łclav Soukup -- Symbolic thought, creativity, and human evolution / Ian Tattersall -- Hominin mind and creativity / Robert Bednarik -- Proto-art and art : art before art / Barbora P¿ta -- Symbolic material culture in the late Pleistocene : use in prehistory, appearance in the archaeological record and taphonomy / Michelle C. Langley -- Mind reading and symbolism in human evolution : the Upper Paleolithic period / Winfried Henke -- The origin of culture by means of natural and artefactual languages / Kate Distin -- In the beginning was art... / Walter Leitner -- Towards abstraction during the Palaeolithic / Christine Desdemaines-Hugon -- The genesis of human creativity and art / Jean Clottes -- The start of art / Harald Floss -- Thoughts on Ice Age art / Ingmar M. Braun -- Artistic techniques in the Upper Paleolithic age / Barbora P¿ta, V©Łclav Soukup --
The seven wonders of prehistoric culture : Western Europe / Barbora P¿ta, V©Łclav Soukup -- The seven wonders of prehistoric culture : Central Europe / Barbora P¿ta, V©Łclav Soukup -- The seven wonders of prehistoric culture : Eastern Europe / Barbora P¿ta, V©Łclav Soukup -- At the beginning : rock art in southwest Europe / Hip©đlito Collado Giraldo -- A comparative perspective on the femaleness of Paleolithic figurines / Richard Lesure -- The genesis and patterns of prehistoric art / Emmanuel Anati, Ariela Fradkin Anati -- The origins of artistic genius and the archaeology of emotional difference / Dave Whitley, Carmen M.T. Whitley -- The emergence of visual narrative in prehistory / Esther Jacobson-Tepfer -- Art, rock art and climate change / Thomas Heyd, Tilman Lenssen-Erz -- Art in the light of darkness / Tilman Lenssen-Erz -- Elemental marking and the emergence of the mind / Jack Steinbring --
"Revolution of symbols", cognition, and the Neolithic revolution / Augustin F.C. Holl -- Experiments with replicas of Neolithic sickles / Miroslav Popelka.

ISBN:

8024626772
9788024626772

OCLC:

(OCoLC)891615944

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)