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Cambridge Archaeol J 16 (1)
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Cambridge Archaeol J 16 (1)
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Cambridge Archaeological Journal
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16 (1)
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John Robb
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Cambridge University Press
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2006
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03 Nov 2006
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Abstract
Altered states of consciousness and palaeoart: an alternative neurovisual explanation
Derek Hodgson
27 - 37
The author discusses the controversy regarding J D Lewis-Williams's assertion that altered states of consciousness and shamanism can explain Palaeolithic art, and argues that evidence seems to be accumulating that this account is unable to provide a sustainable explanation for Upper Palaeolithic depictions. The author explores this proposition and aims to substantiate it by examining further weaknesses contained therein. Additionally, in response to claims that no alternative explanation for palaeoart has been proposed as a viable alternative, he aims to show that such a description does exist but has not been given sufficient attention because of a concern for shamanism.
Symbolic conflict and the spatiality of tradition in small-scale societies
Matthew A Chamberlin
39 - 51
Archaeologists have explained the spatiality and spread of traditions primarily in terms of conflict-free transfers of knowledge. The article critiques the sociospatial conceptualization of tradition implicit in many of these explanations and re-theorizes tradition as a relational process of symbolic conflict. Of particular concern are hierarchical approaches to traditional knowledge that set the more durable unconscious or `embodied' elements of tradition apart from `symbolically invested practices' and attribute to each a unique spatiality, with that of embodied tradition involving largely benign mechanisms of transmission. The article proposes instead that the spatiality of tradition is the outcome of continuous reflexive transformation of embodied traditional knowledge in contested social and symbolic relationships between groups, and that this transformation unfolds in conflict over the meaning, ownership, and value of symbolic inventories (knowledge, names, practices, symbols) within social fields. Ethnographic and archaeological data are used to argue that strategies of symbolic conflict propel traditions along the relational pathways of fields.
A systemic functional approach to language evolution
David Rose
73 - 96
An approach to interpreting possible steps in language evolution is offered from systemic functional linguistic (SFL) theory. SFL models language at three levels from sounds to wordings to complex patterns of social discourse. Typological studies in this framework have shown striking commonalities at each level across languages, that are not yet adequately accounted for by existing models of language phylogenesis. Four conditions are suggested for developing explanatory models that may account for these linguistic phenomena. These include (a) a mechanism for reproducing complex cultural behaviours intergenerationally over extended time, (b) a sequence by which articulated wordings could evolve from non-linguistic primate communication, (c) extension of the functions of wording from enacting interpersonal interactions to representing speakers' experience, and (d) the emergence of complex patterns of discourse for delicately negotiating social relations, and for construing experience in genres such as narrative. These conditions are explored, and some possible steps in language evolution are suggested, that may be correlated with both linguistic research and archaeological models of cultural phases in human evolution. The aims of the article are to offer some useful tools to the field of language evolution, at the same time as indicating potential interpretations of existing work, using insights from SFL research.
Review feature: The singing Neanderthals: the origins of music, la...
97 - 112
The feature presents a discussion on The singing Neanderthals (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2005), in which Steven Mithen argues that musicality is a fundamental part of being human, that this capacity is of great antiquity, and that a holistic protolanguage of musical emotive expression predates language and was an essential precursor to it. Commentaries by archaeologists Clive Gamble and Iain Morley and linguists Alison Wray and Maggie Tallerman are presented, along with Mithen's response to them. Contributions include
Overview
Steven J Mithen
98 - 100
`Name that tune'
Iain Morley
101 - 103
Joining the dots: the evolutionary picture of language and music
Alison Wray
103 - 105
Abracadabra! Early hominin for `I think my humming's out of tune with the rest of the world!'
Maggie Tallerman
106 - 107
Musical chairs
Clive Gamble
108 - 109
Reply
Steven J Mithen
109 - 111
