Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution

Links

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General

General issues pertaining to evolutionary theory can be tracked down through a number of sites:

• http://rumba.ics.uci.edu:8080/faqs/faq-intro-to-biology.html
• http://rumba.ics.uci.edu:8080/origins/faqs.html
• http://pespme1.vub.ac.be/Einmagsy.html
• http://pespme1.vub.ac.be/RELATED.html
• http://rumba.ics.uci.edu:8080/origins/biblio/index.html

Part 1: Palaeoanthropology

• Origins of Humankind (Human Evolution, Paleoanthropology, Physical Anthropology, Prehistoric Man)
  Up to date news summaries, articles on various aspects of hominid evolution. Good annotated list of links.

  Mrs Ples

  Some info on the most complete specimen of A. africanus.

  Palaeontology project - human origins

  Brief info on the Natural History Museum's human origins project.

  Institute of Human Origins

  Nice page with lots of info mostly about Lucy, large bibliography, good photos.

  Dept of Anth: Skull Module

  Neat stuff about skull anatomy.

  Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution in China

  UB - Paleo-etologia Homínida

  Looks pretty good, but it's in Spanish.

  Fossil Hominids

  WWW Links for Palaeonanthropology

  Origins Of Mankind Homepage ( Paleoanthropology , Human Evolution, & Prehistoric Man)

Part 2: Social and socio-cultural systems

Psychology, Culture, and Evolution

Section 2a: Comparative perspectives

Rich sources of information on primates are:

• PIN HOME PAGE
  
• NetVet - Primate Home Page
  
• Primate Gallery

Section 2b: Palaeoanthropological perspectives

General archaeology has a central resource index, and there is also an on-line archaeology journal in development.

SARC: Lots of info on stone tools.

See also: The Ancient World Web: The Ultimate Index of All Things Ancient

Palaeolithic 'Art'

• Introductory article from TIME USA, February 13, 1995 on Palaeolithic rock art in its world-wide context.
• Contemporary approaches to world rock art. A brief overview of the current state of rock art studies.

FRANCE

General

• A useful introduction to (French) Palaeolithic graphic images. Many links to Cave sites at Lascaux, Font de Gaume, Cougnac, la Baume Latrone, Chauvet, Abri Bourdois, Cosquer, Chauvet
• Palaeolithic Rock Art. Directory to 80 cave Rock Art sites in France.

Specific ('paradigmatic') sites

1. Chauvet

• Chauvet cave: Text and pictures about the discovered (December, 1994) Chauvet cave, regarded as 'more important' than Lascaux.

• Chauvet Cave
• ANTIQUITY: Thematic changes in Upper Palaeolithic art: a view from the Grotte Chauvet
  
• Grotte Cosquer : les animaux terrestres
  
• Grotte Cosquer
• EDF - Electricité de France histoire: La grotte Cosquer en trois dimensions
• GROTTE CHAUVET : LES PLUS VIEILLES PEINTURES RUPESTRES DU MONDE Scientific radiocarbon dating of Chauvet Cave paintings, in French.

2. Lascaux

• A 37 K GIF showing deer
• 59 K GIF showing sufficient figurative detail to infer aspects of animal appearance and behaviour
• A 98 K GIF Lascaux bull .
• 48 K GIF Lascaux horse
• 14-33 K JPGs of auroch, swimming deers
• Four 60 K GIFs: aurochs, deers

3. Pech Merle

• Pech Merle: Descriptive text and 32 K Gif showing horses and handprints
• 96 K GIF mammoth depiction

4. Pont d'Arc

The Vallon (Pont d'Arc), Ardeche, 1994 cave discovery

SPAIN

• LABORATORIO DE ESTUDIOS PALEOLÍTICOS Y REPRESENTACIONES ARTÍSTICAS (L.E.P.R.A.): Links to major Spanish Palaeolithic 'art' sites
• The Altamira cave: 1 picture (55 k) of a Bison.
• Altamira

PORTABLE 'ART'

• Documentation of (mostly mobiliar) paleolithic art in Pyrenées
  
  
• Venus figurines and Iconic Signs. Text and 6 b/w and colour pictures about Paleolithic sculptured female and vulvas mobiliar art.

Australian Aboriginal art

• AURA, Australian Rock Art Research Organization Useful reference point.
• Aboriginal art
  Lots of Australian aboriginal art links.

  Map of Australian rock art sites

  Bradshaws genre

  Bradshaw paintings of the Kimberley region, NW Australia have enough detail to document aspects of early Australian

  Thylacine: A thylacine depiction in West Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. 88 K GIF

  Aboriginal material culture and ideology.

  The early Dynamic figures of the Western Arnhem Land rock painting sequence depict a land-based fauna. Two 44 K GIF

  Stencils from the Central Queensland Highlands enable aspects of Aboriginal material culture and demography to be reconstructed. 56 K GIF

South African Bushman art

• Bushmen on the Web
• Rock art: Introductory page Department of Archaeology. University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg.
• Rock Art Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
• Collections - Rock Art Research Unit - Archaeology Department - Wits University 29 painted Stones, 83 engraved Stones, 200 tracings approximately. Sites in Southern Africa.
• Eland depiction, San rock paintings of the Drakensberg region, South Africa. 51 K GIF.

Part 3: Ontogeny and Symbolism

• Behavioral & Brain Sciences Preprint Archive

Part 4: Language Systems and Language Evolution

• On the recent origin of symbolically-mediated language and its implications for psychological science.
  Draft paper (February, 1997) by A.J.Lock, drawing together a number of Handbook themes with respect to language origins
• Cavalli Lab
  This site provides a focus for studies of human dna evolutionary data alongside linguistic data.
• Compilation of lists on extant language resources
• The World Genetic Tree of Languages
• The universal language project
• Semiotics for Beginners

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Comments to A.J.Lock@massey.ac.nz

Department of Psychology, Massey University , New Zealand

URL: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~ALock

last changed Tuesday, 11 February 1997