Del 16 - Developments in Quaternary Science

Origins of Human Innovation and Creativity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

AvScott A. Elias,UC Boulder) Elias, Scott A. (Retired Professor of Quaternary Studies and Paleoecology at Royal Holloway, University of London Current Research Affiliate, Quaternary Entomology,Scott Elias

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Innovation and creativity are two of the key characteristics that distinguish cultural transmission from biological transmission. This book explores a number of questions concerning the nature and timing of the origins of human creativity. What were the driving factors in the development of new technologies? What caused the stasis in stone tool technological innovation in the Early Pleistocene? Were there specific regions and episodes of enhanced technological development, or did it occur at a steady pace where ancestral humans lived? The authors are archaeologists who address these questions, armed with data from ancient artefacts such as shell beads used as jewelry, primitive musical instruments, and sophisticated techniques required to fashion certain kinds of stone into tools.

Providing 'state of art' discussions that step back from the usual archaeological publications that focus mainly on individual site discoveries, this book presents the full picture on how and why creativity in Middle to Late Pleistocene archeology/anthropology evolved.

Gives a full, original and multidisciplinary perspective on how and why creativity evolved in the Middle to Late Pleistocene
Enhances our understanding of the big leaps forward in creativity at certain times
Assesses the intellectual creativity of Homo erectus, H. neanderthalensis, and H. sapiens via their artefacts

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Utgivningsdatum2012-07-25
Mått216 x 276 x 16 mm
Vikt630 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDevelopments in Quaternary Science
Antal sidor140
FörlagElsevier Science
ISBN9780444538215

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Prof. Scott A. Elias is a retired Professor of Quaternary Science at Royal Holloway, University of London, from 2000 to 2017. Before this, he was a Fellow of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado from 1983 to 2000, where he earned his PhD in Environmental Biology. Elias has authored 226 publications. Since 2006, he has been Editor-in-Chief of three Elsevier encyclopaedias and co-editor-in-chief of four encyclopaedias and one comprehensive reference work. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the Elsevier Reference Collection in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences.

Origins of human innovation and creativity: breaking old paradigms, Scott EliasThe problem of stasis in stone tool technology during the Early Pleistocene, Clive GambleNorth African origins of symbolically mediated behaviour and the Aterian, Francesco D’Errico & Nick BartonPersonal ornaments and symbolism among the Neanderthals, Zoão ZilhãoInvention, re-invention and innovation: the makings of Oldowan lithic technology, Erella HoversEmergent patterns of creativity and innovation in early technologies, Steven L. KuhnEvolutionary ecology of creativity, John HoffeckerClimate, creativity and competition: evaluating the Neanderthal ‘glass ceiling’, William Davies

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