The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science
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ISBN: 0500050813 / Publisher: Thames & Hudson, November 1996
Before CivilizationArchaeology and Language
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Merges principals of cognitive archaeology and evolutionary psychology in a style that is accessible to the general reader. With a detailed examination of prehistoric artifacts, archaeologist Mithen (U. of Reading, U.K.) traces the development of the new, modular concept of the human mind, the concept that the human mind is at birth composed of highly specialized cognitive processes consigned to specific types of behavior. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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