caa a22 4500 463255038 CHVBK 20180405153352.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10816-007-9041-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10816-007-9041-5 Hoffecker John Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA aut Representation and Recursion in the Archaeological Record [Elektronische Daten] [John Hoffecker] Living humans are unique among the animal kingdom with respect to their ability to externalize mental representations outside the brain through a variety of media and in a recursive or creative manner (i.e., generating a potentially infinite array of combinations). Earlier humans evolved two specialized organs—the hand and the vocal tract—as primary instruments for externalizing artificial or semantic representations. These organs and the externalized representations may have co-evolved with the Homo brain. The archaeological record yields examples of simple representations by 1.6mya. More complex, hierarchical, and recursive forms are evident by roughly 0.25mya. Complex and highly recursive representations in a wide range of media (including representations of representations in the form of visual art) emerge after 0.1mya among anatomically modern humans. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Representation nationallicence Recursion nationallicence Cognitive psychology nationallicence Linguistics nationallicence Human evolution nationallicence Prehistoric archaeology nationallicence Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 14/4(2007-12-01), 359-387 1072-5369 14:4<359 2007 14 10816 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-007-9041-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-007-9041-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hoffecker John Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 14/4(2007-12-01), 359-387 1072-5369 14:4<359 2007 14 10816 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer