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Steven Mithen
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Most cited in this library
The singing Neanderthals: The origins of music, language, mind, and body
2006 · 887 citations
The prehistory of the mind: a search for the origins of art, religion and science
1996 · 745 citations
The Prehistory of the Mind
1996 · 554 citations
Handaxes: products of sexual selection?
1999 · 357 citations
Thoughtful Foragers
1990 · 203 citations
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Toward inclusive theories of the evolution of musicality
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
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2021
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7 authors
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Open access
58
citations
Mesolithic Fireplaces and the Enculturation of Early Holocene Landscapes in Britain, with a Case Study from Western Scotland
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
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2019
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1 author
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Open access
13
citations
A Lateglacial archaeological site in the far north‐west of Europe at Rubha Port an t‐Seilich, Isle of Islay, western Scotland: Ahrensburgian‐style artefacts, absolute dating and geoarchaeology
Journal of Quaternary Science
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2015
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8 authors
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Open access
39
citations
The Cognition of Homo neanderthalensis and H. sapiens: Does the Use of Pigment Necessarily Imply Symbolic Thought?
Springer eBooks
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2013
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1 author
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chapter
85
citations
An 11 600 year-old communal structure from the Neolithic of southern Jordan
Antiquity
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2011
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5 authors
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Open access
54
citations
Holistic communication and the co‐evolution of language and music: resurrecting an old idea
Oxford University Press eBooks
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2009
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1 author
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chapter
12
citations
The Brain as a Cultural Artefact
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
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2008
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2 authors
64
citations
Investigating early hominin dispersal patterns: developing a framework for climate data integration
Journal of Human Evolution
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2007
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5 authors
63
citations
22 The Network of Brain, Body, Language, and Culture
Springer eBooks
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2007
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1 author
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chapter
11
citations
Rock art at WF400
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2007
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2 authors
0
citations
Why are some handaxes symmetrical? Testing the influence of handaxe morphology on butchery effectiveness
Journal of Archaeological Science
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2006
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3 authors
173
citations
The singing Neanderthals: The origins of music, language, mind, and body
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2006
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1 author
887
citations
The Singing Neanderthals: the Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body, by Steven Mithen. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2005. ISBN 0-297-64317-7 hardback £20 & US$25.2; ix+374 pp.
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
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2006
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5 authors
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other
39
citations
Review of 'Çatalhöyük : the Leopard's Tale. Revealing the mysteries of Turkey's ancient town' by Ian Hodder
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2006
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1 author
20
citations
The Singing Neanderthals
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2005
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1 author
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book
80
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Sexual symbolism in the Early Neolithic of the Southern Levant: pestles and mortars from WF16
Documenta Praehistorica
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2005
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3 authors
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Open access
23
citations
Book Review: Figuring it Out. What Are We? Where Do We Come From? The Parallel Visions of Artists and Archaeologists
European Journal of Archaeology
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2004
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1 author
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other
0
citations
Examining the farming/language dispersal hypothesis
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2004
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1 author
15
citations
Colin Renfrew, Figuring it Out. What Are We? Where Do We Come From? The Parallel Visions of Artists and Archaeologists. (London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, 224 pp., hbk, ISBN 0 500 05114 3)
European Journal of Archaeology
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2004
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1 author
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other
0
citations
Handaxes: The First Aesthetic Artefacts
Springer eBooks
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2003
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1 author
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chapter
50
citations
Stepping out: a computer simulation of hominid dispersal from Africa
Journal of Human Evolution
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2002
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1 author
137
citations
Human evolution and the cognitive basis of science
Cambridge University Press eBooks
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2002
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1 author
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chapter
43
citations
The Evolution of Imagination: An Archaeological Perspective
SubStance
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2001
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1 author
38
citations
The Evolution of Imagination: An Archaeological Perspective
SubStance
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2001
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1 author
28
citations
Mind, brain and material culture: an archaeological perspective
Cambridge University Press eBooks
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2000
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1 author
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chapter
34
citations
Handaxes: products of sexual selection?
Antiquity
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1999
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2 authors
357
citations
A Hunter-Gatherer Landscape: Southwest Germany in the Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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1999
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2 authors
71
citations
The Prehistory of the Mind: A Search for the Origins of Art, Religion and Science
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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1999
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2 authors
54
citations
Arqueología de la mente: orígenes del arte, de la religión y de la ciencia
Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja)
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1998
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1 author
23
citations
The Microwear and Morphology of Microliths from Gleann Mor
Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology/Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
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1997
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2 authors
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chapter
38
citations
Cognitive Archaeology, Evolutionary Psychology and Cultural Transmission, with Particular Reference to Religious Ideas
Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association
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1997
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1 author
8
citations
Emergency Decisions, Cultural-Selection Mechanics, and Group Selection [and Comments and Reply]
Current Anthropology
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1996
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8 authors
98
citations
On Early Palaeolithic "Concept-Mediated Marks," Mental Modularity, and the Origins of Art
Current Anthropology
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1996
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1 author
31
citations
The prehistory of the mind: a search for the origins of art, religion and science
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1996
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1 author
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book
745
citations
The Prehistory of the Mind
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1996
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1 author
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book
554
citations
The Prehistory of the Mind:The Cognitive Origins of Art and Science
Dominican Scholar (Dominican University of California)
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1996
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1 author
162
citations
A search for the origins of art, religion and science
Thames and Hudson eBooks
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1996
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1 author
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book
30
citations
Darwinian Archaeologies
Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology/Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
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1996
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2 authors
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chapter
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Open access
21
citations
The Origin of Art
Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology/Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
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1996
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1 author
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chapter
11
citations
State of the Art: Regional Rock Art Studies in Australia and Melanesia
Man
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1994
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6 authors
73
citations
From domain specific to generalized intelligence: a cognitive interpretation of the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic transition
Cambridge University Press eBooks
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1994
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1 author
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chapter
51
citations
Technology and Society during the Middle Pleistocene: Hominid Group Size, Social Learning and Industrial Variability
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
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1994
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1 author
89
citations
Australian Rock Art: A New Synthesis.
Man
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1994
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2 authors
33
citations
Iberia Before the Iberians: The Stone Age Prehistory of Cantabrian Spain.
Man
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1993
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2 authors
61
citations
Simulating Mammoth Hunting and Extinction: Implications for the Late Pleistocene of the Central Russian Plain
Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association
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1993
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1 author
30
citations
Individuals, Groups and the Palaeolithic Record: A Reply to Clark
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
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1993
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1 author
8
citations
Thoughtful Foragers: A Study of Prehistoric Decision Making
Man
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1992
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2 authors
134
citations
A history of archaeological thought
History of European Ideas
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1991
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1 author
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other
200
citations
Ecological Interpretations of Palaeolithic Art.
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
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1991
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1 author
31
citations
Red Deer Hunters on Colonsay? The Implications of Staosnaig for the Interpretation of the Oronsay Middens
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
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1991
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2 authors
19
citations
‘A Cybernetic Wasteland’? Rationality, Emotion and Mesolithic Foraging
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
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1991
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1 author
13
citations
Thoughtful Foragers
Cambridge University Press eBooks
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1990
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1 author
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book
203
citations
The eco-psychology of decision making
Cambridge University Press eBooks
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1990
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1 author
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chapter
0
citations
The ethnography of hunter-gatherer decision making
Cambridge University Press eBooks
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1990
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1 author
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chapter
0
citations
Evolutionary theory and post-processual archaeology
Antiquity
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1989
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1 author
38
citations
To Hunt or to Paint: Animals and Art in the Upper Palaeolithic
Man
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1988
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1 author
41
citations
Modeling hunter-gatherer decision making: complementing optimal foraging theory
Human Ecology
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1988
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1 author
33
citations
Looking and learning: Upper Palaeolithic Art and information gathering
World Archaeology
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1988
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1 author
86
citations