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L'art gravé azilien : de la technique à la signification
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ISBN: 2271052475 9782271052476 Year: 1994 Volume: 31 Publisher: Paris : CNRS,

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The chronology of the Aurignacian and the transitional technocomplexes : dating, stratigraphies, cultural implications : Proceedings of the symposium 6.1 of the XIVth congress of the UISPP (University of Liège, Belgium, september 2-8, 2001)
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ISBN: 9728662157 Year: 2003 Volume: 33 Publisher: Lisboa : Instituto portugues do patrimonio cultural, departamento de arqueologia,


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San elders speak : ancestral knowledge of the Kalahari San
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ISBN: 9781776146642 9781776146628 1776146646 9781776146659 1776146654 Year: 2021 Publisher: Johannesburg : Wits University Press,

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This richly illustrated book documents San material culture through the words of four San elders in conversation with two academics. Their discussion, over seven days, of the world's largest collection of San artefacts provides a novel perspective that enriches scholarly knowledge and brings past and present San ways of life vividly alive.

From tools to symbols : from early hominids to modern humans ; in honour of Professor Phillip V. Tobias
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ISBN: 9781868146376 9781868144174 Year: 2005 Publisher: Johannesburg Wits University Press

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San Elders Speak : Ancestral Knowledge of the Kalahari San
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ISBN: 9781776146642 9781776146628 1776146646 Year: 2021 Publisher: Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press,

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This richly illustrated book documents San material culture through the words of four San elders in conversation with two academics. Their discussion, over seven days, of the world's largest collection of San artefacts provides a novel perspective that enriches scholarly knowledge and brings past and present San ways of life vividly alive.


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Homo symbolicus : the dawn of language, imagination and spirituality
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ISBN: 9789027211897 9789027284099 9786613314710 9027284091 1283314711 9781283314718 9027211892 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub.,

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The emergence of symbolic culture, classically identified with the European cave paintings of the Ice Age, is now seen, in the light of recent groundbreaking discoveries, as a complex nonlinear process taking root in a remote past and in different regions of the planet. In this book the archaeologists responsible for some of these new discoveries, flanked by ethologists interested in primate cognition and cultural transmission, evolutionary psychologists modelling the emergence of metarepresentations, as well as biologists, philosophers, neuro-scientists and an astronomer combine their researc


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Becoming eloquent : advances in the emergence of language, human cognition, and modern cultures
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ISBN: 1282444840 9786612444845 9027288712 9789027288714 9789027232694 9027232695 Year: 2009 Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Company,

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A growing scala of computational and robotic experiments are trying to pin down the cognitive and social prerequisites that may have given rise to human language. From humble beginnings showing how a lexicon may self-organize in a population of artificial agents, these research efforts are now exploring how grammatical languages about complex scenes may emerge. This paper introduces this field of inquiry and then explores whether a dialog with archeologists might be useful.

From tools to symbols : from early hominids to modern humans
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ISBN: 1868144178 1868144348 1868146375 Year: 2005 Publisher: Johannesburg Wits University Press

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A number of researchers have tried to characterise the anatomy and behavioural systems of early hominid and early modern human populations in an attempt to understand how we became what we are. Can archaeology, palaeo-anthropology and genetics tell us how and when human cultures developed the traits that make our societies different from those of our closest living relatives? In which cases are these differences substantial, and when do they simply reflect our definitions of culture, species, the image we have of their evolution or of ourselves? From Tools to Symbols, a collection of twenty-seven selected papers from a South African-French conference organised in honour of the well-known palaeo-anthropologist Phillip Tobias, provides a multidisciplinary overview of this field of study. It is based on collaborative research conducted in sub-Saharan Africa by South African, French, American and German scholars in the last twenty years, and represents an excellent synthesis of the palaeontological and archaeological evidence of the last five million years of human evolution.


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San Elders Speak: Ancestral knowledge of the Kalahari San
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ISBN: 1776146646 177614662X Year: 2021 Publisher: Wits University Press

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This richly illustrated book documents San material culture through the words of four San elders in conversation with two academics. Their discussion, over seven days, of the world's largest collection of San artefacts provides a novel perspective that enriches scholarly knowledge and brings past and present San ways of life vividly alive.

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