What happened to the human mind after the Howiesons Poort?

dc.contributor.author	Lombard M.	en
dc.contributor.author	Parsons I.	en
dc.date.accessioned	2012-11-01T16:31:29Z
dc.date.available	2012-11-01T16:31:29Z
dc.date.issued	2011	en
dc.identifier.citation	Antiquity	en
dc.identifier.citation	85	en
dc.identifier.citation	330	en
dc.identifier.issn	0003598X	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/7300
dc.description.abstract	The authors deliver a decisive blow to the idea of unidirectional behavioural and cognitive evolution in this tightly argued account of why the bow and arrow was invented and then possibly laid aside by Middle Stone Age communities in southern Africa Finding that all are modern humans (Homo sapiens), they paint a picture of diverse strategies for survival and development from 75 000 years ago onwards It is one in which material inventions can come and go, human societies negotiating their own paths through a rugged mental landscape of opportunity.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Evolution; Howiesons Poort; Human mind; Projectiles; Southern Africa; Stone Age	en
dc.title	What happened to the human mind after the Howiesons Poort?	en
dc.type	Article	en