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Mithen, Professor Steven
Language
http://www.shes.rdg.ac.uk/Staff/StaffDetails.asp?PID=SJM
Professor Steven Mithen's research interests
cover from the origin of Homo c.2 million years ago to the invention
and spread of agriculture up to 5000 BC. His projects fall into
three areas: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene hunter-gatherers
and early farmers, the evolution of the human mind, and computational
archaeology. He has directed fieldwork in Western Scotland and
is currently co-directing excavations in Wadi Faynan, southern
Jordan. His authored books include The Prehistory of the Mind
(1996) and After the Ice (2003), and he has edited volumes on
Human Creativity (1998) and Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Archaeology
(2001). Steves latest publication is The Singing Neanderthals:
The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body.
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