Early Body Ornaments and the Origins of Our Semiotic Mind

Name: Early Body Ornaments and the Origins of Our Semiotic Mind
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ISBN: 9781350260078

Antonis Iliopoulos (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford, UK)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
30 April 2026

Sociolinguistics; Historical & comparative linguistics; Semiotics & semiology

Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics

By employing a cognitive semiotic theory based on pragmatism and enactivism, this book explores the nature and emergence of early body ornamentation, which has long been at the forefront of the debate on modern human origins.

Using artifacts such as ocher pigments and the Blombos Cave shell beads, the book examines the connection between early body ornaments and the semiotic mind, and addresses the question of whether early body ornaments were made by a symbolic mind, or whether they provided the material and semiotic scaffolding required for such a mind to emerge.

By: Antonis Iliopoulos (Postdoctoral Researcher University of Oxford UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9781350260078
ISBN 10: 135026007X
Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 30 April 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Antonis Iliopoulos is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, USA.

Reviews for Early Body Ornaments and the Origins of Our Semiotic Mind

How did Mark Making and Meaning morph into Signs, Symbols and Syntax through Shells-- the S and M of the semiotic emergence of modern human cognition? Iliopoulos, in highly persuasive argument, shows how the semiotics of archaeological ornaments allowed complex processes, not states, to transform material signs of meaning. * Iain Davidson, Emeritus Professor, University of New England, Australia *