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Cognition and material culture : the archaeology of symbolic storage / edited by Colin Renfrew and Chris Scarre.

Title
Cognition and material culture : the archaeology of symbolic storage / edited by Colin Renfrew and Chris Scarre.
Publication
Cambridge [England] : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge ; Oakville, CT : Distributed [in the USA by] D. Brown Book Co., c1998.

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Additional Authors
  • McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
  • Renfrew, Colin, 1937-
  • Scarre, Christopher
Description
xii, 187 p. : ill., 1 map; 29 cm.
Series Statement
McDonald Institute monographs, 1363-1349
Uniform Title
McDonald Institute monographs.
Subject
  • Cognition and culture > Congresses
  • Hieroglyphics
  • Inscriptions
  • Inscriptions > Congresses
  • Material culture > Congresses
  • Material culture
  • Picture-writing > Congresses
  • Picture-writing
  • Symbolic anthropology > Congresses
Note
  • Papers originally presented at a conference held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge in September 1996.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Mind and matter / Colin Renfrew -- Hominid enculturation and cognitive evolution / Merlin Donald -- Palaeolithic origins of artificial memory systems / Francesco d'Errico -- Material artefacts, symbolism, sociologists and archaeologists / David Halle -- Mimesis, imagination and role-play / Paul L. Harris -- Rock art / Thomas A. Dowson -- Digging for memes / Mark Lake -- Personal experience and belief / E.J. Lowe -- The supernatural beings of prehistory and the external storage of religious ideas / Steven Mithen -- Chinese burial patterns / 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 / Ezra B.W. Zubrow & Patrick T. Daly -- Mind and artefact / Robert A. Hinde -- Material culture and cognition / Merlin Donal
ISBN
0951942069
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library