Early Body Ornaments and the Origins of Our Semiotic Mind
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aesthetics
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Blombos Cave
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cognitive archaeology
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evolution
Hoffmeyer
hypothesis of enactive signification
Malafouris
Middle Stone Age
Peirce
pragmatic semiotics
pragmatism
rituals
selfhood
semiotic scaffolding
semiotics
South Africa
symbolism
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- ISBN 9781350260078
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 154 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Feb 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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By employing a cognitive semiotic theory based on pragmatism and enactivism, this book explores the nature and emergence of early body ornamentation, which has long been at the forefront of the debate on modern human origins.
Using artifacts such as ocher pigments and the Blombos Cave shell beads, the book examines the connection between early body ornaments and the semiotic mind, and addresses the question of whether early body ornaments were made by a symbolic mind, or whether they provided the material and semiotic scaffolding required for such a mind to emerge.
Antonis Iliopoulos is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, USA.
