Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Editors’ Introduction Contemporary Socio-Cultural Research
- Part I Theoretical and methodological issues
- Part II From nature to culture
- Chapter 5 The Windowless Room
- Chapter 6 Functional Systems of Perception-Action and Re-Mediation
- Chapter 7 Comparative Development of Communication
- Chapter 8 The Material Practices of Ape Language Research
- Chapter 9 The End of Myths and Legends About the Biological and Cultural Evolution
- Part III From orientation to meaning
- Part IV Symbolic resources for the constitution of experience
- Part V From society to the person through culture
- Part VI From social culture to personal culture
- Part VII Making sense of the past for the future: memory and self-reflection
- General Conclusions: Socio-Cultural Psychology on the Move
- Index
Chapter 9 - The End of Myths and Legends About the Biological and Cultural Evolution
A New View in the Knowledge on Hominid Paleo-Ethoecology
from Part II - From nature to culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Editors’ Introduction Contemporary Socio-Cultural Research
- Part I Theoretical and methodological issues
- Part II From nature to culture
- Chapter 5 The Windowless Room
- Chapter 6 Functional Systems of Perception-Action and Re-Mediation
- Chapter 7 Comparative Development of Communication
- Chapter 8 The Material Practices of Ape Language Research
- Chapter 9 The End of Myths and Legends About the Biological and Cultural Evolution
- Part III From orientation to meaning
- Part IV Symbolic resources for the constitution of experience
- Part V From society to the person through culture
- Part VI From social culture to personal culture
- Part VII Making sense of the past for the future: memory and self-reflection
- General Conclusions: Socio-Cultural Psychology on the Move
- Index
Summary
The best method to fight myths and legends about biological and cultural evolution of primate species is through interdisciplinary studies and discussions. One of the myths the author can find in archaeology and paleoanthropology manuals is the one related to the Homo faber concept. It would be strange that, facing similar ecological conditions, forest hominids had renounced the advantages of the instrumental behavior only because of being pre-humans. This instrumental behavior could have been even more frequent than in the case of chimpanzees, given the advantages of bipedalism (in the forest as in savannah) for manipulating and transporting tools. He thinks that the generalization about the first lithic industries as being a consequence of a higher intelligence in the human genus should be qualified and contrasted with the paleoecological conditions of East Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene. This chapter talks about when hominids started making camps at ground level.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology , pp. 187 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007