Автор: Rik Smits Название: Dawn: The Origins of Language and the Modern Human Mind Издательство: Routledge Год: 2016 ISBN: 9781412862578 / 1412862574 Язык: English Формат: pdf Размер: 14,7 mb Страниц: 230
Lacking strength and speed, man relies on wisdom for survival. Smits theorizes that human skills in calculation and estimation continued to develop until they were sufficient to accommodate a system as complex as grammar.
Only after our linguistic ability emerged could humans think logically and share our reasoning with others, at which point almost everything we now call culture began to flourish. Smits concludes that language cannot have long predated the invention of agriculture in the Middle East, some 14,000 years ago. The huge advance in civilization represented by language made abstract powers of reasoning indispensable for the first time, along with highly developed concepts of identity, past, present, and future, all of which rely upon language.
This explanation of the origins of language throws new light on cave paintings by Cro-Magnon man, whose masterpieces date from about 40,000 to 15,000 years ago. Anatomically Cro-Magnons were modern humans, but they had no language in the modern sense. Their absence of language gave them no true sense of individual identity.
1 Night 2 The Animal Inside Us 3 Goodbye to the Animal Kingdom 4 Phantom Limbs and Figments of the Mind 5 Shamans in the Shadows 6 Voices on the Plains 7 Dawn
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