The life of symbols. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mary LeCron Foster and Lucy Jayne Botscharow.
• Editors: Foster, Mary LeCron, 1914-2001; Botscharow, Lucy Jayne
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part One Beginnings; 1 The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Symbolizing; 2 The Origin of Counting: A Rethinking of Upright Posture; 3 Paleolithic Semiotics: Behavioral Analogs to Speech in Acheulean Sites; 4 Analogy, Language, and the Symbolic Process; Part Two Persistence and Congruity; 5 Red Ocher in the Paleolithic; 6 Philosophy of the Corpse: Modes of Disposal and Their Cultural Correlates; 7 ""Neolithic"" Patterns of Face Representation: A Neuro-Evolutionary Ecological Study; 8 Cognitive Cores and Flint Flakes Part Three Figuration9 Corralling Life; 10 Representation of Movement in Upper Paleolithic Figurative Art; 11 Symbols and Sacred Images of Old Europe; Part Four Abstraction; 12 A Neolithic Sign System in Southeastern Europe; 13 The Birth and Life of Signs; About the Editors and Contributors; Index
• Publisher Details: New York, NY Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302.2223; Signs and symbols; Prehistoric peoples; Social evolution; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429312311; 0429312318; 9781000231113; 1000231119; 9781000267051; 1000267059; 9781000302998; 1000302997
• Related ISBNs: 9780367293567
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 18, 2019).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.