The challenge of the abstract mind: symbols, signs and notational systems in European prehistory

The challenge of the abstract mind: symbols, signs and notational systems in European prehistory

Since the earliest manifestations of symbolic activity in modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) in the Upper Palaeolithic, there is evidence for two independent cognitive procedures, for the production of representational images (naturalistic pictures or sculptures) and of abstract signs. The use of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Harald Haarmann
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2005-12-01
Series:	Documenta Praehistorica
Subjects:	symbolic activity in humans representational images abstract signs early experiments with writing
Online Access:	https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/2173

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