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Brian Blessed can take a hike
http://vip.db.dk/signs/Articles_Sig... _2008_ The origin of symboling - revised.pdfOrigin of symboling - Bednarik 2008 said:Over the past few decades, the dominant dogma developed for these
periods perceives little or no cultural change or evolution throughout the Lower
Paleolithic, roughly from 2.5 million years ago to 180,000 years ago. It defines
this time as static, and sees little change even in the subsequent Middle
Paleolithic, which ends 40,000 BP in much of Eurasia, 20,000 BP in Africa and
only a few thousand years ago in Australia. Then, with the advent of the Upper
Paleolithic, the dogma perceives a cataclysmic bottleneck, a quantum jump, an
explosion: all the typically human characteristics that distinguish us from other
animals appeared suddenly and at once and, of course, in western Europe:
art, language, complex social systems, self‐awareness, forward planning and
symboling.
This model is rejected here on the basis of the hard evidence, according to
which the development of human cognition was a gradual process that occurred
throughout the Pleistocene period. This evidence consists of indications of
complex pre‐meditated human behavior (such as the colonization of land only
accessible by sea crossings) and the cognition (e.g. language) and technology
demanded by it; the use of coloring materials; the use and making of beads and
pendants; the production of engravings; and the introduction of the concept of
iconicity (of referrer and referent, i.e. signs).
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