• Steven Mithen, FBA, FSA, FSA Scot (born 16 October 1960) is an archaeologist. He is noted for his work on the evolution of language, music and intelligence...
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    of scholars, namely, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Angela E. Close, João Zilhão, Steven Mithen, Thomas G. Wynn, and Alexander Marshack, commented on that study, while...
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    Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language. Steven Mithen described him as "one of the greatest language scholars of the nineteenth...
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  • / Music Composer Anthony Mithen Laurie Mithen Marianne Mithun (born 1946), scholar of American Indian languages Steven Mithen Mithun, a bovine animal in...
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  • based on archaeology, in the human past. A review of Smail's book by Steven Mithen, professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading, is sympathetic...
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  • reasoning, language, numeracy, and literacy. ECA is broadly analogous to Steven Mithen's categories of cognitive-processual and evolutionary-cognitive archaeology...
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    the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2010. Steven Mithen (1996). The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion...
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  • Cunliffe describes this book as "history as it should be written." Steven Mithen writes that Scott's "account of the deep past doesn't purport to be...
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    symbolism in religion is a universal established phenomenon. Archeologist Steven Mithen contends that it is common for religious practices to involve the creation...
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    anthropomorphism. This anthropomorphic art has been linked by archaeologist Steven Mithen with the emergence of more systematic hunting practices in the Upper...
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    manhunting or cannibalism. In 1999, British science writers Marek Kohn and Steven Mithen said that many hand axes exhibit no wear and were produced en masse...
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    Charles Darwin. A prominent proponent of this view is archaeologist Steven Mithen. Stephen Anderson states that the age of spoken languages is estimated...
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  • that it is the only thing that matters is scientifically outlandish." Steven Mithen gave the book a mixed review in the Guardian, in which he wrote, "I...
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  • Björn; Brown, Steven, eds. (2000). The origins of music. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-28569-8. OCLC 44963330. Steven Mithen, The Singing Neanderthals:...
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    "Review of Groping for Groups, by Edward O. Wilson, Jonathan Haidt, Steven Mithen, Steven Pinker, and Richard Dawkins". The Hudson Review. 65 (4): 652–658...
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    scholars have supported this theory, particularly the archeologist Steven Mithen. Music arose to fulfill a practical need. Propositions include: To assist...
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  • Making of a Modern Father, Simon & Schuster, 2018. Machin AJ, Hosfield R, Mithen SJ. Testing the functional utility of handaxe symmetry: fallow deer butchery...
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    Wesson, Historical Dictionary of Early North America, 2005, p. 35. Steven Mithen, After the Ice: a global human history, 20,000–5000 BC, 2006, p. 540...
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    doi:10.1016/j.intell.2005.10.002. Demetriou, Mouyi & Spanoudis 2010 Steven Mithen 2005 edition|"Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory" Rolf W....
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    55–65. Bibcode:2010QuInt.211...55L. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2008.12.001. Steven Mithen (1999), The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion...
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    Central Asia. UNESCO. ISBN 978-92-3-102719-2. Retrieved 20 August 2011. Steven Mithen (30 April 2006). After the ice: a global human history, 20,000-5000...
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  • culture; geoarchaeologist Vance Haynes; Larry Agenbroad; archaeologist Steven Mithen. Produced by Frances Berrigan, directed by Christopher Swayne, made...
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  • may have emerged due to an increase in complex social interactions. Steven Mithen proposed the term Hmmmmm for the pre-linguistic system of communication...
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  • Historic Places. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-25958-8. Retrieved 2015-06-20. Steven Mithen (November 26, 2012). Thirst: For Water and Power in the Ancient World...
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  • cognition, philosophy) Douglas Medin (cognitive psychology, anthropology) Steven Mithen (ideational cognitive archaeology) Rafael E. Núñez (philosophy of mathematics...
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  • of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum 2010, p. 9 Steven Mithen After the ice: a global human history, 20,000-5000 BC 2006, p. 540 Mary...
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  • have." In 1999, Kohn had proposed, together with the archaeologist Steven Mithen, the "sexy hand-axe hypothesis." This hypothesis proposes that pressures...
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    Lily Mithen (born 2 March 1998) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. She was drafted...
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    early Neolithic at Jerf el Ahmar. Jerf el Ahmar means "red cliff". Mithen, Steven J. (2006). After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC. Harvard...
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    south-eastern Anatolia". Antiquitey Journal, Volume 83, Issue 320. Mithen, Steven (2006). After the ice: a global human history, 20,000–5,000 BC (1st ed...
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