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Landscape of the Mind
John F. Hoffecker
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Description for Landscape of the Mind
Num Pages: 288 pages, 91 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542. Human Evolution and the Archaeology of Thought. 288 pages, 12 black & white halftones, 54 black & white line drawings. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHM. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 24. Weight: 542.
In Landscape of the Mind, John F. Hoffecker explores the origin and growth of the human mind, drawing on archaeology, history, and the fossil record. He suggests that, as an indirect result of bipedal locomotion, early humans developed a feedback relationship among their hands, brains, and tools that evolved into the capacity to externalize thoughts in the form of shaped stone objects. When anatomically modern humans evolved a parallel capacity to externalize thoughts as symbolic language, individual brains within social groups became integrated into a "neocortical Internet," or super-brain, giving birth to the mind. Noting that archaeological traces of ... Read more
In Landscape of the Mind, John F. Hoffecker explores the origin and growth of the human mind, drawing on archaeology, history, and the fossil record. He suggests that, as an indirect result of bipedal locomotion, early humans developed a feedback relationship among their hands, brains, and tools that evolved into the capacity to externalize thoughts in the form of shaped stone objects. When anatomically modern humans evolved a parallel capacity to externalize thoughts as symbolic language, individual brains within social groups became integrated into a "neocortical Internet," or super-brain, giving birth to the mind. Noting that archaeological traces of ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231147040
SKU
V9780231147040
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About John F. Hoffecker
John F. Hoffecker is a fellow of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of A Prehistory of the North: Human Settlement of the Higher Latitudes and coauthor of Human Ecology of Beringia, which was named a Choice outstanding academic title.
Reviews for Landscape of the Mind
Overall, this is a much needed addition to the area of cognitive thought, an area of research that will become increasingly important within archaeology and paleoanthropology over the coming decades.
Samuel P. Griffiths PaleoAnthropology Landscape of the Mind provides an innovative view on the feedback between the biological and social in human evolution.
Matthew L. Sisk Journal of ... Read more
Samuel P. Griffiths PaleoAnthropology Landscape of the Mind provides an innovative view on the feedback between the biological and social in human evolution.
Matthew L. Sisk Journal of ... Read more