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Settlement, society and cognition in human evolution : landscapes in the mind

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1. What use is the Palaeolithic in promoting new prehistoric narratives? / Chris Gosden; 2. Local objects, distant symbols: fission-fusion social systems and the evolution of human cognition / Matt Grove and Robin Dunbar; 3. The extension of social relations in time and space during the Palaeolithic and beyond / Dwight Read and Sander van der Leeuw; 4. Beyond animality and humanity : landscape, metaphor and identity in the early Upper Palaeolithic of Central Europe / Martin Porr; 5. At the heart of the African Acheulean : the physical, social and cognitive landscapes of Kilombe / John A.J. Gowlett, James S. Brink, Andy I.R. Herries, Sally Hoare, Isaya Onjala and Stephen M. Rucina; 6. All in a day's work? : early conflicts in expertise, life history and time management / Anthony Sinclair; 7. To see a world in a hafted tool : birch-pitch composite technology, cognition and memory in Neanderthals / R.M. Wragg Sykes; 8. Ecological niches, technological developments and physical adaptations of early humans in Europe : the handaxe-heidelbergensis hypothesis / Nick Ashton; 9. "Dancing to the rhythms of the biotidal zone" : settlement history and culture history in Middle Pleistocene Britain / Mark J. White; 10. "Forest furniture" or "forest managers"? : on Neanderthal presence in Last Interglacial environments / Wil Roebroeks and Corrie C. Bakels; 11. Late Pleistocene hominin adaptations in Greece / Paraskevi Elefanti and Gilbert Marshall; 12. In search of group identity : Late Pleistocene foragers in northern China / Ofer Bar-Yosef; 13. Handaxe symmetry in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic : implications for the Acheulean gaze / James Cole; 14. Landscapes of the dead : the evolution of human mortuary activity from body to place in Palaeolithic Europe / Paul Pettitt; 15. Encoding and decoding the message : the case of mid Upper Palaeolithic female imagery / Margherita Mussi; 16. Contextualising the female image : symbols for common ideas and communal identity in Upper Palaeolithic societies / Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser and Olaf Jöris; 17. Taking a gamble : alternative approaches to the Mesolithic of western Scotland / Steven Mithen.

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