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The Prehistory of the Mind
The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science
by Steven Mithen
ISBN: 0500050813
ISBN-13: 9780500050811
Format: Hardcover
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"...Mithen's easy style is accessible to the casual reader who is looking for an overview, but his book is also chock-full of useful archaeological and anthropological detail. A work to the professionals:do not skip the footnotes. They contain stuff that will fascinate and edify the working cognitive scientist. Mithen seduced me from the Anthony Powell that I was reading; I can't imagine a warmer commendation." -- Jerry Fodor
-- London Review of Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published date: 1996
Size: 6.75 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.65 pounds
Pages: 288
Publisher's Notes
Here is one of the first books to bring the insights of archaeology to bear on some of the most fundamental and contentious issues in human evolution. On the way to showing how the world of our ancient ancestors shaped our modern, modular mind, Steven Mithen shares one provocative insight after another. He offers an intriguing and challenging explanation of what it means to be human, a bold new theory about the origin and nature of the mind. 50 illustrations.
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