Scaling up: Material culture as scaffold for the social brain

Quaternary International

Volumn 405, Issue , 2016, Pages 78-90

  Coward, Fiona ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed cognition; Material culture; Neolithic; Palaeolithic; Social network

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; COGNITION; HOMINID; MATERIAL CULTURE; NEOLITHIC; PALEOLITHIC; SOCIAL NETWORK;

HOMO SAPIENS; PAN;

EID: 84961773488     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.09.064     Document Type: Article

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