TY - CHAP
T1 - Different Ways of Being, Different Ways of Seeing … Changing Worldviews in the Near East
AU - Goring-Morris, Nigel
AU - Belfer-Cohen, Anna
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Prior to the period of the semi-sedentary Natufian complex, the Levant provides but sporadic and sometimes equivocal evidence for symbolic activities, with most of the material culture remains relating primarily to the mundane realm of mobile foraging bands. Yet those Upper Palaeolithic and early Epipalaeolithic bands clearly had an awareness of self identity, whether at the level of the individual, the family, the band, or the wider mating network – ‘us’ as opposed to ‘them’ (Goring-Morris and Belfer-Cohen 2002; Leroi-Gourhan 1981; Lewis-Williams 2002; and papers in Lee and Daly 1999). These social relationships were accompanied by worldviews with a structured
AB - Prior to the period of the semi-sedentary Natufian complex, the Levant provides but sporadic and sometimes equivocal evidence for symbolic activities, with most of the material culture remains relating primarily to the mundane realm of mobile foraging bands. Yet those Upper Palaeolithic and early Epipalaeolithic bands clearly had an awareness of self identity, whether at the level of the individual, the family, the band, or the wider mating network – ‘us’ as opposed to ‘them’ (Goring-Morris and Belfer-Cohen 2002; Leroi-Gourhan 1981; Lewis-Williams 2002; and papers in Lee and Daly 1999). These social relationships were accompanied by worldviews with a structured
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SN - 9781842174166
T3 - Levant Supplementary Series
SP - 9
EP - 22
BT - Landscapes in Transition
A2 - Finlayson, Bill
A2 - Warren, Graeme
PB - Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)
CY - Oxford and Oakville
ER -