Inside the Neolithic Mind.INSIDE THE NEOLITHIC MIND DAVID LEWIS-WILLIAMS James David Lewis-Williams is a professor emeritus of cognitive archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was born in Cape Town in 1934. David Lewis-Williams, as he is known to his friends and colleagues, is regarded as an eminent specialist in the San AND DAVID PEARCE There have been several notable people named David Pearce, including:
In this sequel to Lewis-Williams' bestseller The Mind in the Cave, he and Pearce examine the impetus for ancient peoples' transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers during a period known as the Neolithic, with this change, modern societies flourished. Their traces can be found in ancient carvings, burial mounds, and architecture. The authors, both researchers at the Rock Art Research Institute in Johannesburg, examine how biology and culture combined to create the complex societies that came after nomadic See nomadic computing. lifestyles. Much of this development can be ascribed to the structure and functioning of the human brain, the authors argue. They see that brain as being hardwired for, among other things, religious experience, myth telling, and altered states of consciousness altered states of consciousness, n.pl the various states in which the mind can be aware but is not in its usual wakeful condition, such as during hypnosis, meditation, hall-ucination, trance, and the dream stage. See also alternative states of consciousness. . The authors look for clues to Neolithic changes in archaeological excavations in the Near East and Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). and in the cultural practices of modern people, Thames & Hudson, 2005, 320 p., hardcover, $34.95. |
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