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What Stimulated Rapid, Cumulative Innovation After 100,000 Years Ago?
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory ( IF 3.073 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 , DOI: 10.1007/s10816-020-09499-y
Lyn Wadley

Imagination and innovation are likely stimulated through the intersection of brain power, motor skill and social need. Through time, escalating creativity may have influenced cognition and social interactions, creating a feedback situation that also implicated demography. Such reciprocal interactions between technology, cognition and society may have motivated the accumulation of innovations that are particularly visible in the archaeological record after 100,000 years ago (not as a revolution, but incrementally). Raw materials also played a role because they are not passive; intense interaction with objects reflexively stimulates human imagination and creativity. Archaeological evidence for material culture items that appear to embody imagination is present before the appearance of Homo sapiens. The implication is that imagination is not the sole preserve of people like us; nonetheless, H. sapiens took imaginative expressions to new heights after about 100,000 years ago. Perforated and ochre-covered marine shells were found in early modern human burials and living sites and thereafter more material culture items convey imagination. Shell beads were strung to form a variety of patterns, and engraved ostrich eggshells, engraved ochre, worked bone and hundreds of pieces of utilised ochre have been widely found. Innovation, imagination and complex cognition are also conveyed in the manufacture of everyday objects used for subsistence activities.



中文翻译:

100,000年后,是什么激发了快速累积的创新?

大脑能力,运动技能和社会需求的交集可能会激发想象力和创新能力。随着时间的流逝,不断提高的创造力可能会影响认知和社交互动,从而产生一种反馈情况,也牵涉到人口统计学。技术,认知与社会之间的这种互惠互动可能促使了创新的积累,而这些创新在100,000年前的考古记录中尤为明显(不是革命,而是渐进的)。原材料也起了作用,因为它们不是被动的。与物体的强烈互动反身激发了人类的想象力和创造力。在智人出现之前就已经出现了体现想象力的物质文化物品的考古证据。。这意味着想象力不是像我们这样的人的唯一保存;然而,大约十万年前,智人的想象力表达就达到了新的高度。在早期的现代人类墓葬和生活场所中发现了带孔和色覆盖的海洋贝壳,此后,更多的物质文化物品传达了想象力。贝壳珠串成各种图案,刻有鸵鸟蛋壳,石,工作骨头和成百上千的利用cher石。创新,想象力和复杂的认知也传递到日常活动中来。

更新日期:2021-01-13
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