Creativity and Complex Society Before the Upper Palaeolithic Transition

Developments in Quaternary Science

Volumn 16, Issue , 2012, Pages 15-21

  Gamble, Clive ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Cultural transmission; Distributed cognition; Hominin; Modern humans; Palaeolithic; Social emotions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863999708     PISSN: 15710866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53821-5.00002-6     Document Type: Chapter

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