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Steven Mithen
FBA FSA FSA Scot
Born
(1960-10-16) 16 October 1960 (age 63)
Nationality
British
Education
BA, MSc, PhD
Alma mater
Sheffield University, York University, Cambridge University
Known for
Evolution of language, music, and the mind, prehistoric hunter-gatherers and the origins of farming
Scientific career
Fields
Archeology
Institutions
University of Reading
Steven Mithen, FBA, FSA, FSA Scot (born 16 October 1960) is an archaeologist.[1] He is noted for his work on the evolution of language, music and intelligence, prehistoric hunter-gatherers, and the origins of farming. He is professor of early prehistory at the University of Reading.
^Keys, David (25 March 2024). "The 1.6 million-year-old discovery that changes what we know about human evolution - New research suggests language is eight times older than previously thought". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 March 2024. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
StevenMithen, FBA, FSA, FSA Scot (born 16 October 1960) is an archaeologist. He is noted for his work on the evolution of language, music and intelligence...
of scholars, namely, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Angela E. Close, João Zilhão, StevenMithen, Thomas G. Wynn, and Alexander Marshack, commented on that study, while...
Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language. StevenMithen described him as "one of the greatest language scholars of the nineteenth...
culture; geoarchaeologist Vance Haynes; Larry Agenbroad; archaeologist StevenMithen. Produced by Frances Berrigan, directed by Christopher Swayne, made...
/ Music Composer Anthony Mithen Laurie Mithen Marianne Mithun (born 1946), scholar of American Indian languages StevenMithen Mithun, a bovine animal in...
based on archaeology, in the human past. A review of Smail's book by StevenMithen, professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading, is sympathetic...
reasoning, language, numeracy, and literacy. ECA is broadly analogous to StevenMithen's categories of cognitive-processual and evolutionary-cognitive archaeology...
anthropomorphism. This anthropomorphic art has been linked by archaeologist StevenMithen with the emergence of more systematic hunting practices in the Upper...
Archived from the original on 9 April 2008. Retrieved 28 March 2008. StevenMithen (1996). The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion...
symbolism in religion is a universal established phenomenon. Archeologist StevenMithen contends that it is common for religious practices to involve the creation...
Björn; Brown, Steven, eds. (2000). The origins of music. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-28569-8. OCLC 44963330. StevenMithen, The Singing Neanderthals:...
"Review of Groping for Groups, by Edward O. Wilson, Jonathan Haidt, StevenMithen, Steven Pinker, and Richard Dawkins". The Hudson Review. 65 (4): 652–658...
manhunting or cannibalism. In 1999, British science writers Marek Kohn and StevenMithen said that many hand axes exhibit no wear and were produced en masse...
Charles Darwin. A prominent proponent of this view is archaeologist StevenMithen. Stephen Anderson states that the age of spoken languages is estimated...
from the original (PDF) on 2013-07-29. With responses by Paul Bahn, StevenMithen, et al. Chauvet Cave (ca. 30,000 b.c.) on the Metropolitan Museum of...
scholars have supported this theory, particularly the archeologist StevenMithen. Music arose to fulfill a practical need. Propositions include: To assist...
55–65. Bibcode:2010QuInt.211...55L. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2008.12.001. StevenMithen (1999), The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion...
Central Asia. UNESCO. ISBN 978-92-3-102719-2. Retrieved 20 August 2011. StevenMithen (30 April 2006). After the ice: a global human history, 20,000-5000...
Making of a Modern Father, Simon & Schuster, 2018. Machin AJ, Hosfield R, Mithen SJ. Testing the functional utility of handaxe symmetry: fallow deer butchery...
may have emerged due to an increase in complex social interactions. StevenMithen proposed the term Hmmmmm for the pre-linguistic system of communication...
Wesson, Historical Dictionary of Early North America, 2005, p. 35. StevenMithen, After the Ice: a global human history, 20,000–5000 BC, 2006, p. 540...
of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum 2010, p. 9 StevenMithen After the ice: a global human history, 20,000-5000 BC 2006, p. 540 Mary...
Historic Places. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-25958-8. Retrieved 2015-06-20. StevenMithen (November 26, 2012). Thirst: For Water and Power in the Ancient World...
cognition, philosophy) Douglas Medin (cognitive psychology, anthropology) StevenMithen (ideational cognitive archaeology) Rafael E. Núñez (philosophy of mathematics...
have." In 1999, Kohn had proposed, together with the archaeologist StevenMithen, the "sexy hand-axe hypothesis." This hypothesis proposes that pressures...
focus and methodology. C. W. Ceram, Gods, Graves and Scholars, 1949 StevenMithen, The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion...
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