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 PleistoceneEnhances
our understanding of the big leaps forward in creativity at certain
timesAssesses the intellectual creativity of "Homo erectus, H.
neanderthalensis," and "H. sapiens" via their artefacts"
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