Steven J. Mithen

Brings to life fifteen thousand years of human history in a study that follows an imaginary modern traveler who visits and observes prehistoric communities and landscapes that laid the foundations of the modern world.

A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC

After the Ice

An examination of our language instinct. Steven Mithen draws on a huge range of sources, from neurological case studies, through child psychology and the communication systems of non-human primates to the latest paleoarchaeological evidence.

The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body

The Singing Neanderthals

Uses prehistoric artifacts to develop a theory about how human intelligence has evolved

The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science

The Prehistory of the Mind

How did prehistoric men live? Where did they travel to? What did they do when they got there? Did they fight wars? Were all people doing similar things, everywhere in the world? These, and many other questions, are answered in this book.

Since the 1980s consensus opinion is that the mind is like a collection of specialised modules each tasked for a specific purpose. The author seeks to elucidate and account for this theory and explain what it means to be human in this context.

A Search for the Origins of Art, Religion and Science

María José Aubet

El exito obtenido por la Historia del tiempo, de Stephen Hawking, propicio la creacion, en 1991, de esta coleccion de divulgacion cientifica que fue dirigida durante largo tiempo por dos personas de formacion humanistica: de ahi ciertas contaminaciones al inicio de la coleccion. Sin embargo, cuando Jose Manuel Sanchez Ron se hizo cargo de ella, dio un aprobado a la gestion anterior. En esta coleccion, quiza la mas ambiciosa de todas las de divulgacion cientifica que se editan en espanol, se han publicado obras de Stephen Jay Gould, Carl Sagan, lan Stewart, Edward O. Wilson, Antonio Damasio, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Ilya Prigogine, John D. Barrow, Rita Levi Montalcini, Richard P. Feynman, Roger Penrose, Steven Weinberg, Rachel Carson, Francisco Garcia Olmedo, Francisco Yndurain o Jose Manuel Sanchez Ron. Como es y como trabaja la mente humana? Steven Mithen nos dice que no podemos comprendernos a nosotros mismos si no averiguamos como ha nacido y como ha evolucionado la inteligencia humana. Partiendo de este principio, el autor usa la arqueologia y la psicologia para contarnos la historia del nacimiento y la evolucion de la mente humana.

orígenes del arte, de la religión y de la ciencia

Arqueología de la mente

Steven R. Mithen

Thoughtful Foragers is about hunter-gatherer decision making. The author explores the implications of the human mind as a product of biological evolution for the way in which humans solve foraging problems. He draws on studies form ethology, psychology and ethnography prior to turning his attention to prehistoric hunter-gatherers. He attempts to construct explanations for patterns in the archaeological record by an explicit focus on decision making by individuals. Thoughtful Foragers will appeal to specialists in European prehistory as well as to those interested in archaeological theory and method. It makes some very significant advances, which will be of real importance for the field of evolutionary theory in relation to human evolution and the evaluation of human social systems.

Steven J. Mithen

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