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The Prehistory of the Mind.
By Steven Mithen.
Thames & Hudson.
Steven mithen prehistory mindless behavior
1996. �16.95 hardback. ISBN: 0-500-05081-3.
Review by Martin P. Evison.
Steven Mithen's The Prehistory of the Mind is an ambitious attempt to build a model of the evolutionary history of the mind from archaeological evidence.
Whilst the book has much to commend it as an accessible and comprehensive introduction, both to the relevant palaeoanthropological models and to contemporary theories of the mind derived by psychologists and cognitive scientists, its claims to have sought and found 'the cognitive foundations of art, religion and science' are exaggerated.
The book is well structured, with our evolutionary history from the time of our common primate ancestors introduced as a series of acts in a drama.
Readers are then diverted to an overview of some contemporary theories of cognition and Mithen's own postulation and are then returned to a series of chapters taking them through evolutionary history, using