The Life Of Symbols

Mary LeCron Fosteran, Lucy Jain

Preface -- Introduction -- Beginnings -- The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Symbolizing -- The Origin of Counting: A Rethinking of Upright Posture -- Paleolithic Semiotics: Behavioral Analogs to Speech in Acheulean Sites -- Analogy, Language, and the Symbolic Process -- Persistence and Congruity -- Red Ocher in the Paleolithic -- Philosophy of the Corpse: Modes of Disposal and Their Cultural Correlates -- “Neolithic” Patterns of Face Representation: A Neuro-Evolutionary Ecological Study -- Cognitive Cores and Flint Flakes -- Figuration -- Corralling Life -- Representation of Movement in Upper Paleolithic Figurative Art -- Symbols and Sacred Images of Old Europe -- Abstraction -- A Neolithic Sign System in Southeastern Europe -- The Birth and Life of Signs