///////////////////////////Our genome is very similar to when homo sapiens was first around 100,000 years ago, but in terms of how we live our lives, we are incomparable to our ancestors.
///////////////////////////ONTOGENETIC- LIFESPAN
////////////////////////////STONE TOOLS 2.5 MYA TO AGRICULTR 10KYA
///////////////////////////6 MYA SEPARATES US FROM CHIMPS- SOMEWHERE THEN THE HUMAN MIND SPRANG OUT
WHEN?
AUSTRALOPETHICUS RAMIDUS 2.5 MYA
HOMO HABILIS 2 MYA- FIRST ANCESTOR TO MAKE STONE TOOLS
H ERECTUS- 1.8 MYA - FIRST TO LEAVE AFRICA
H SAPIENS SAPIENS - AROSE 100KYA
/////////////////////////////COGNITIVE ARCHAEOLOGY
//////////////////////////INCR IN HOMINID BRAIN VOLUME IN LAST 4 MYRS
////////////////////////////2 MYA SPURT IN BRAIN VOLUME= TOOLMAKING
//////////////////////////H SAPIENS CULTURAL EXPLOSION 60 KYA TO 30 KYA-ART, RELIGN STARTED
///////////////////////////////RISE OF MIND
GENL MENTALITY MODEL TABULA RASA- BLANK SLATE
VERSUS
SPLIZED MENTALITY MODEL - SWISS ARMY KNIFE EG
////////////////////////AGRICULTR AROSE INDEPENDENTLY IN MULTIPLE CONTINENETS- SW ASIA, EQ AF, SE ASIA, C AM , S AM
//////////////////////////////PEACE OF MIND ALWAYS STARTS IN THE STOMACH
//////////////////////////////A MAN OF MEANS
///////////////////////////////COULROPHOBIA- FEAR OF CLOWNS- TORMENT CNMA 2008
///////////////////////////////COGNITIVE FLUIDITY-AGRICULTR, TOWN , CITY, STATES
///////////////////////////WHEAT, BARLEY IN SW ASIA
YAM WAF
TARO, COCONUT- SE ASIA
//////////////////////////JERICHO, GILGAD - 10KYA - BIRTH OF AGRICULTR- CLIMATE INSTABILITY OF LATE PLEISTOCENE- GAVE IMPETUS FOR AGRICULTR
/////////////////////////////The major turning point only occurred once homo sapiens had been around for tens of thousands of years. This is what is referred to as the Paleolithic revolution, where we suddenly see far more sophisticated tools, far more sophisticated and developed hunting techniques. You have oceanic travel, cave drawings, ceremonial burials. So moving from very simple tools to a far more sophisticated ways of organising ourselves in groups and even being able to travel over oceans. Mithen says the key challenge is really to try to understand this explosion in creativity around 60,000 years ago, which doesn’t correspond with an increase in brain size – because that was a lot earlier. Brain capacity alone can’t explain this sudden leap forward. BRWSR
////////////////////////////////...........His theory is that this explosion is as a result of changes in the nature of language. And, following on from that, he says you then see changes in consciousness within the mind. He argues that the language of early humans, pre-homo sapiens, was exclusively a social language. They used language to send and receive social information, to establish pecking orders and loyalties, etc, rather than using language for subjects such as tool-use or hunting. With larger group sizes language was an effective means of building social ties; much more effective than grooming, which is the staple form of sociability for apes, that’s the way they maintain some kind of group cohesion. Mithen argues very persuasively that this social language, at some point, gets transformed into a general purpose language. And it’s only when language starts acting as a way of delivering information about the world other than the social world, that we’re able to really start thinking about our own thought processes. He says that, as a result of that, the whole of human behaviour became pervaded with the flexibility and the creativity that characterises modern humans.
Because the real difficulty, if you understand evolution, is that things change very slowly. But here you have this explosion. There must have been a small change in our evolutionary past that allowed language – a social language – to suddenly become a general purpose language, Mithen argues.
///////////////////////////////............that there was this social language. Once you have language, then you can start using that language to drive your own thought process and actually think about what you’re doing – rather than just banging away at something. When you get a tool that is helpful, you’re actually looking at it and thinking, ‘Well, this isn’t good enough, I want to use it for this, maybe it would be better if it was sharper this end, and blunter at that end…’
///////////////////////////////.............For a while people thought apes could ape.
They can’t?
No, they can’t. Not in the human way.....H Guldberg
/////////////////////////////sapiens paradox
///////////////////////////HUMANS HAVE SPECIES- UNIQUE MODE OF CULTURAL TRANSMISSION
////////////////////////////HUMANS CAN POOL COGNITIVE RESOURCES
/////////////////////////LEARNING 3 TYPES- IMITATIVE, INSTRUCTIVE, COLLABORATIVE
/////////////////////////////////THUNDER, LIGHTNING AND RAIN
/////////////////////////////OVERARCHING FACT OF ORGANIC WORLD-EBMONS- EVOLN BY MEANS OF NS
//////////////////////////////ACQUIRING INFO FROM PHYSICAL AS WELL AS SOCIAL ENV
///////////////////////////DUAL INHERITANCE THEORY
///////////////////////////HUMAN INFANT AT AGE 9 MO- SOCIAL COGNITION TAKES OFF , DIFFERENTIAITING FROM OTHER PRIMATES
/////////////////////////SYMBOL AND ITS REFERRANT IN THE PERCEPTUAL WORLD
///////////////////////////FTHR FIGR- DOES NOT LISTEN, ONLY CRITICISES- ANGR MGMT
////////////////////////////RECURSIVE MIND OF AN INFANT- BIG, BIG FURRY SCARY BEAR
/////////////////////////////
///////////////////////////ONTOGENETIC- LIFESPAN
////////////////////////////STONE TOOLS 2.5 MYA TO AGRICULTR 10KYA
///////////////////////////6 MYA SEPARATES US FROM CHIMPS- SOMEWHERE THEN THE HUMAN MIND SPRANG OUT
WHEN?
AUSTRALOPETHICUS RAMIDUS 2.5 MYA
HOMO HABILIS 2 MYA- FIRST ANCESTOR TO MAKE STONE TOOLS
H ERECTUS- 1.8 MYA - FIRST TO LEAVE AFRICA
H SAPIENS SAPIENS - AROSE 100KYA
/////////////////////////////COGNITIVE ARCHAEOLOGY
//////////////////////////INCR IN HOMINID BRAIN VOLUME IN LAST 4 MYRS
////////////////////////////2 MYA SPURT IN BRAIN VOLUME= TOOLMAKING
//////////////////////////H SAPIENS CULTURAL EXPLOSION 60 KYA TO 30 KYA-ART, RELIGN STARTED
///////////////////////////////RISE OF MIND
GENL MENTALITY MODEL TABULA RASA- BLANK SLATE
VERSUS
SPLIZED MENTALITY MODEL - SWISS ARMY KNIFE EG
////////////////////////AGRICULTR AROSE INDEPENDENTLY IN MULTIPLE CONTINENETS- SW ASIA, EQ AF, SE ASIA, C AM , S AM
//////////////////////////////PEACE OF MIND ALWAYS STARTS IN THE STOMACH
//////////////////////////////A MAN OF MEANS
///////////////////////////////COULROPHOBIA- FEAR OF CLOWNS- TORMENT CNMA 2008
///////////////////////////////COGNITIVE FLUIDITY-AGRICULTR, TOWN , CITY, STATES
///////////////////////////WHEAT, BARLEY IN SW ASIA
YAM WAF
TARO, COCONUT- SE ASIA
//////////////////////////JERICHO, GILGAD - 10KYA - BIRTH OF AGRICULTR- CLIMATE INSTABILITY OF LATE PLEISTOCENE- GAVE IMPETUS FOR AGRICULTR
/////////////////////////////The major turning point only occurred once homo sapiens had been around for tens of thousands of years. This is what is referred to as the Paleolithic revolution, where we suddenly see far more sophisticated tools, far more sophisticated and developed hunting techniques. You have oceanic travel, cave drawings, ceremonial burials. So moving from very simple tools to a far more sophisticated ways of organising ourselves in groups and even being able to travel over oceans. Mithen says the key challenge is really to try to understand this explosion in creativity around 60,000 years ago, which doesn’t correspond with an increase in brain size – because that was a lot earlier. Brain capacity alone can’t explain this sudden leap forward. BRWSR
////////////////////////////////...........His theory is that this explosion is as a result of changes in the nature of language. And, following on from that, he says you then see changes in consciousness within the mind. He argues that the language of early humans, pre-homo sapiens, was exclusively a social language. They used language to send and receive social information, to establish pecking orders and loyalties, etc, rather than using language for subjects such as tool-use or hunting. With larger group sizes language was an effective means of building social ties; much more effective than grooming, which is the staple form of sociability for apes, that’s the way they maintain some kind of group cohesion. Mithen argues very persuasively that this social language, at some point, gets transformed into a general purpose language. And it’s only when language starts acting as a way of delivering information about the world other than the social world, that we’re able to really start thinking about our own thought processes. He says that, as a result of that, the whole of human behaviour became pervaded with the flexibility and the creativity that characterises modern humans.
Because the real difficulty, if you understand evolution, is that things change very slowly. But here you have this explosion. There must have been a small change in our evolutionary past that allowed language – a social language – to suddenly become a general purpose language, Mithen argues.
///////////////////////////////............that there was this social language. Once you have language, then you can start using that language to drive your own thought process and actually think about what you’re doing – rather than just banging away at something. When you get a tool that is helpful, you’re actually looking at it and thinking, ‘Well, this isn’t good enough, I want to use it for this, maybe it would be better if it was sharper this end, and blunter at that end…’
///////////////////////////////.............For a while people thought apes could ape.
They can’t?
No, they can’t. Not in the human way.....H Guldberg
/////////////////////////////sapiens paradox
///////////////////////////HUMANS HAVE SPECIES- UNIQUE MODE OF CULTURAL TRANSMISSION
////////////////////////////HUMANS CAN POOL COGNITIVE RESOURCES
/////////////////////////LEARNING 3 TYPES- IMITATIVE, INSTRUCTIVE, COLLABORATIVE
/////////////////////////////////THUNDER, LIGHTNING AND RAIN
/////////////////////////////OVERARCHING FACT OF ORGANIC WORLD-EBMONS- EVOLN BY MEANS OF NS
//////////////////////////////ACQUIRING INFO FROM PHYSICAL AS WELL AS SOCIAL ENV
///////////////////////////DUAL INHERITANCE THEORY
///////////////////////////HUMAN INFANT AT AGE 9 MO- SOCIAL COGNITION TAKES OFF , DIFFERENTIAITING FROM OTHER PRIMATES
/////////////////////////SYMBOL AND ITS REFERRANT IN THE PERCEPTUAL WORLD
///////////////////////////FTHR FIGR- DOES NOT LISTEN, ONLY CRITICISES- ANGR MGMT
////////////////////////////RECURSIVE MIND OF AN INFANT- BIG, BIG FURRY SCARY BEAR
/////////////////////////////
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