Over recent years, a number of scholars have argued that the human mind underwent a cognitive revolution in the Neolithic. This volume seeks to test these claims at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey and in other Neolithic contexts in the Middle East. It brings together cognitive scientists who have developed theoretical frameworks for the study of cognitive change, archaeologists who have conducted research into cognitive change in the Neolithic of the Middle East, and the excavators of the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük who have over recent years been exploring changes in consciousness, creativity and self in the context of the rich data from the site. Collectively, the authors argue that when detailed data are examined, theoretical evolutionary expectations are not found for these three characteristics. The Neolithic was a time of long, slow and diverse change in which there is little evidence for an internal cognitive revolution.
Author(s): Ian Hodder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 350
01.0_pp_i_ii_Consciousness_Creativity_and_Self_at_the_Dawn_of_Settled_Life
02.0_pp_iii_iii_Consciousness_Creativity_and_Self_at_the_Dawn_of_Settled_Life
03.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page
04.0_pp_v_vi_Contents
05.0_pp_vii_viii_Contributors
06.0_pp_ix_x_Acknowledgments
07.0_pp_1_62_Introduction_to_the_Themes_Site_and_Region
07.1_pp_3_30_Introduction_to_the_Themes_of_the_Volume
07.2_pp_31_62_Hunter-Gatherer_Home-Making_Building_Landscape_and_Community_in_the_Epipaleolithic
08.0_pp_63_150_Higher_Levels_of_Consciousness
08.1_pp_65_89_When_Time_Begins_to_Matter
08.2_pp_90_106_Cognitive_Change_and_Material_Culture
08.3_pp_107_132_Conscious_Tokens
08.4_pp_133_150_Brick_Sizes_and_Architectural_Regularities_at_Neolithic_Catalhoeyuek
09.0_pp_151_206_Greater_Innovation_and_Creativity
09.1_pp_153_167_The_Meronomic_Model_of_Cognitive_Change_and_Its_Application_to_Neolithic_Catalhoeyuek
09.2_pp_168_189_Containers_and_Creativity_in_the_Late_Neolithic_Upper_Mesopotamian
09.3_pp_190_206_Creativity_and_Innovation_in_the_Geometric_Wall_Paintings_at_Catalhoeyuek
10.0_pp_207_288_Greater_Awareness_of_an_Integrated_Personal_Self
10.1_pp_209_229_Personal_Memory_the_Scaffolded_Mind_and_Cognitive_Change_in_the_Neolithic
10.2_pp_230_249_Adorning_the_Self
10.3_pp_250_272_From_Parts_to_a_Whole_Exploring_Changes_in_Funerary_Practices_at_Catalhoeyuek
10.4_pp_273_288_New_Bodies_From_Houses_to_Humans_at_Catalhoeyuek
11.0_pp_289_290_Notes
12.0_pp_291_298_Index
