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Book SynopsisOver recent years, a number of scholars have argued that the human mind underwent a cognitive revolution in the Neolithic. The proposed volume seeks to test these claims at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey and in other Neolithic contexts in the Middle East.
Trade Review'… an introduction by Hodder (Stanford Univ.), which presents the central problem of paleocognition and the Çatalhöyük site, the cognitive scientists consider whether cultural change could cause or encourage cognitive change, while the archaeologists look at various classes of artifacts and their distributions in time and space at Çatalhöyük and other Neolithic sites in the Near East to see if their changes could be related to cognitive changes in the people who made and used them.' L. L. Johnson, Association of American Publishers
Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction to the Themes, Site, and Region: 1. Introduction to the themes of the volume – cognition and Çatalhöyük Ian Hodder; 2. Hunter-gatherer home-making? Building landscape and community in the Epipalaeolithic Lisa Maher; 3. When time begins to matter Marion Benz; Part II. Higher Levels of Consciousness: 4. Cognitive change and material culture – a disturbed perspective Michael Wheeler; 5. Conscious tokens? Lucy Bennison-Chapman; 6. Brick sizes and architectural regularities Marek Z. Baranski; 7. The meronomic model of cognitive change, and its application to Neolithic Çatalhöyük Chris Thornton; 8. Containers and creativity in the Late Neolithic Upper Mesopotamian Olivier Nieuwenhuyse; 9. Creativity and innovation in the geometric wall paintings at Çatalhöyük Ian Hodder and Nazli Gurlek; Part III. Greater Awareness of an Integrated Personal Self: 10. Personal memory, the scaffolded mind, and cognitive change in the Neolithic John Sutton; 11. Adorning the self Milena Vasic; 12. From parts a whole? Exploring changes in funerary practices at Çatalhöyük Scott D. Haddow, Eline M. J. Schotsmans, Marco Milella, Marin A. Pilloud, Belinda Tibbets and Christopher J. Knusel; 13. New bodies – from houses to humans at Çatalhöyük Anna Fagan.
