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8 - Containers and Creativity in the Late Neolithic Upper Mesopotamian

from Part III - Greater Innovation and Creativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

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Olivier Nieuwenhuyse
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Ian Hodder
Ian Hodder
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Stanford University, California
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Stimulated by my reading of Merlin Donald (1991, 1998), I shall explore the notions of ‘consciousness’ and ‘creativity’ through the concept of the extended mind. The crux of my argument is that the expanding material world in the Neolithic can be seen as an expansion of the extended, or distributed, mind. I shall leave aside what actually constitutes human cognition or how it is modularly organized (see Wheeler, Chapter 4, this volume). Rather, being an archaeologist, I shall concentrate on the ‘extended’ part of the hybrid, working from the broad notion that the human cognitive world and the (material) environment in which humans socialize are dialectically related (Boivin 2008; Clark 1997; Dunbar et al. 2010; Malafouris 2016; Renfrew 1998, 2004, 2012).

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Consciousness, Creativity, and Self at the Dawn of Settled Life , pp. 168 - 189
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Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

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