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Origins of Human Innovation and Creativity: Volume 16

Origins of Human Innovation and Creativity: Volume 16

Elias, Scott A.

Hardcover

Series: Developments in Quaternary Science, Book 16

ArchaeologyGeneral PsychologyGeology

ISBN10: 0444538216
ISBN13: 9780444538215
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: Aug 29 2012
Pages: 140
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.38 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

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.

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