Contents List

Special Issue on The Symbolic Construction of Community
 (guest editors: Marion Benz and Joachim Bauer)  

Editorial

• Preface, by Marion Benz and Joachim Bauer

Keynotes

• Trevor Watkins: Neolithisation Needs Evolution, as Evolution needs Neolithisation
• Marion Benz and Joachim Bauer: Symbols of Power - Symbols of Crisis? A Psycho-Social Approach to Early Neolithic Symbol System

Comments

• Robin I.M. Dunbar: What Makes the Neolithic so Special?
• Colin Renfrew: Centres of Congregation
• Bo Dahl Hermansen: On Cultural Niche Construction and Materiality
• Hans Georg K. Gebel: The Territoriality of Early Neolithic Symbols and Ideocracy
• Christa Sütterlin and Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt: Human Cultural Defense: Means and Monuments of Ensuring Collective Territory
• Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern) and Andrew Strathern: Symbols, Language, Ritual, and Scale
• Ulrike Bohnet: Crisis Needs Shamans, as Shamans Need Crisis? Shamans as Psycho-Social Professionals in Early Neolithic Symbol Systems
• Klaus Theweleit: An Entirely New Interaction with the Animal World?

Reply / Epilogue

• Trevor Watkins: Extending the Scope of the Neolithic Conversation
• Joachim Bauer and Marion Benz: Neurobiology Meets Archaeology: The Social Challenges of the Neolithic Processes

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