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The Human Symbolic Revolution: A Darwinian Account

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Chris Knight ,
Camilla Power  and
Ian Watts
Chris Knight
Affiliation:
Department of SociologyUniversity of East LondonLongbridge RoadDagenham Essex RM8 2AS
Camilla Power
Affiliation:
Department of AnthropologyUniversity College LondonGower Street London WC1E 6BT
Ian Watts
Affiliation:
Department of AnthropologyUniversity College LondonGower Street London WC1E 6BT
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By 50,000 years ago, the effects of a ‘symbolic explosion’ — an efflorescence of human art, song, dance and ritual — were rippling across the globe. Applied to archaeological evidence, standard neo-Darwinian theory offers new understandings of this improbable event. The present article defines ‘symbolism’, models quasi-ritual behaviour in late archaic Homo sapiens, extends the argument to the emergence of anatomically modern humans and concludes with preliminary tests against archaeological, ethnographic and rock art data.

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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , April 1995 , pp. 75 - 114
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Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1995

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