Maxine Sheets‐johnstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maxine Sheets‐johnstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maxine |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheets‐johnstone |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSTONE M S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Tribal Lore in Present-day Paleoanthropology
This essay critically examines ways in which cognitivist tenets function as tribal lore in the current paleoanthropological controversy over the relationship between Neandertals and modern humans. It does this through an analysis of Stringer and Gamble's characterization of the behavior of "Moderns" as "symbolic behavior," showing how their underlying conception of a symbol is muddled and nowhere substantiated. It shows further how their denigrat…
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Tribal Lore in Present-day Paleoanthropology
This essay critically examines ways in which cognitivist tenets function as tribal lore in the current paleoanthropological controversy over the relationship between Neandertals and modern humans. It does this through an analysis of Stringer and Gamble's characterization of the behavior of "Moderns" as "symbolic behavior," showing how their underlying conception of a symbol is muddled and nowhere substantiated. It shows further how their denigrat…
Archaeology (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (1 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (1 works) · Consciousness (1 works) · Denial (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Evolutionary biology (1 works) · Function (biology (1 works) · History (1 works)