Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory throws new light on the life and behaviour of the earliest humans. It offers unique perspectives on the nature of human creativity from some of the most respected scholars working in this
field. The contributors consider the question of whether
humans are the only species capable of thinking creatively,
or whether there is evidence our extinct relatives, such as
the Neanderthals, displayed creativity. Using diverse sources of evidence, they analyse the way the dead were buried, monuments created and the natural world exploited to explore exactly what these changes reveal about the prehistoric mind
and its creative abilities. Margaret Boden, University of Sussex, UK, Richard Bradley, University of Reading, UK, Richard Byrne, University of St Andrews, UK,
Ian Hodder, University of Cambridge, UK,
Edited by:
Steven Mithen
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 725g
ISBN: 9780415160964
ISBN 10: 0415160960
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 10 September 1998
Audience:
College/higher education
,
College/higher education
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents Introduction: The Archaeological Study of Human Creativity Steven Mithen Perspectives on Creativity Editorial Introduction What is Creativity: a view from the cognitive sciences Margaret Boden Creative thought: a long term perspective Ian Hodder Creative thought in traditional aboriginal society Robert Layton The Evolution of Human Creativity Editorial Introduction The early evolution of creative thinking: evidence from monkeys and apes Richard Byrne Homo: The creative genus? Mark Lake Middle Palaeolithic `creativity': Reflections on an oxymoron? Steven L. Kuhn & Mary C. Stiner A creative explosion? Theory of mind, language and the disembodied mind of the upper Palaeolithic Steven Mithen Creativity in Later Prehistoric Europe Editorial Introduction Creativity's coffin: Innovation in the burial record of Mesolithic Europe Rick J. Schulting Architecture, imagination and the Neolithic world Richard Bradley The conditions of creativity for prehistoric Maltese art Caroline Malone & Simon Stoddart All the King's horses: Assessing cognitive maps in later prehistoric Europe Colin Renfrew
