In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the
human imagination, without which we would not have become a global
species. He sets out to determine the cognitive and social basis for
our imaginative capacity and traces the evidence back into deep human
history. He argues that it was the imaginative ability to 'go beyond'
and to create societies where people lived apart yet stayed in touch
that made us such effective world settlers. To make his case Gamble
brings together information from a wide range of disciplines:
psychology, cognitive science, archaeology, palaeoanthropology,
archaeogenetics, geography, quaternary science and anthropology. He
presents a novel deep history that combines the archaeological
evidence for fossil hominins with the selective forces of Pleistocene
climate change, engages with the archaeogeneticists' models for
population dispersal and displacement, and ends with the Europeans'
rediscovery of the deep history settlement of the Earth.
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ISBN
9781107720404
Publisert
2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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