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The life of symbols / edited by Mary LeCron Foster and Lucy Jane Botscharow.

By: Foster, Mary LeCron
Contributor(s): Botscharow, Lucy Jayne
Language: English Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview, 1990.Description: x, 318p. : ill., diagrs., drawings, photos, tables ; 24cm.ISBN: 0813378419
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Includes bibl. references. - Contents: The ontogeny and phylogeny of symbolizing / Catherine M. Borchert and Adrienne L. Zihlmann; The origin of counting: a rethinking of upright posture / Maxine Sheets- Johnstone; paleolithic semiotics: behavioral analogs to speech in Acheulian sites / Lucy Jayne Botscharow; Analogy, language and the symbolic process / Mary Lecron Foster; Red ocher in the Paleolithic / Joseph Velo and Alice B. Kehoe; Philosophy of the corpse: modes of disposal and their cultural correlates / Slawoj Szynkiewicz; Neolithic patterns of face representation: a neuro-evolutionary ecological study / Anneliese A. Pontius; Cognitive cores and flint flakes / Robert L. Hall; Corralling life / Thomas F. Kehoe; Representation of movement in Upper Paleolithic figurative art / Germaine Prudhommeau; Symbols and sacred images of old Europe / Marija Gimbutas; A Neolithic sign system in southeastern Europe / Shann M.M. Winn; The birth and life of signs / Mary Lecron Foster.

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