British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
British Academy Centenary Research Project Symposium
Social Brain, Distributed Mind
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
25-26 September 2008
Abstracts
Holly Arrow (Oregon): Cliques, Coalitions, Comrades, and Colleagues: Sources of Cohesion in Groups
Alan Barnard (Edinburgh): When individuals do not stop at the skin
Yonas Beyene (Addis Ababa): Herto brains and minds: Behaviour of Early Homo sapiens from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia
John Chapman (Durham): Fragmenting hominins and the presencing of Early Palaeolithic social worlds
Paul Connerton (Cambridge): Some Functions of Collective Forgetting
Fiona Coward (RHUL): Small worlds, material culture and ancient Near Eastern social networks
Terrence W. Deacon (UC Berkeley): More to brain evolution than natural/sexual selection
R.I.M. Dunbar (Oxford): Deacon’s Dilemma: How to Cope With the Risks of Mate Desertion in Fission-Fusion Social Systems
Clive Gamble (RHUL): Technologies of separation and the evolution of social extension
J.A.J. Gowlett (Liverpool): Firing up the Imagination
Carl Knappett (Exeter): Networks and the evolution of socio-material differentiation
Robert Layton (Durham) and Sean O’Hara (Liverpool): Fission-fusion behaviour in Chimpanzees and Hunter-gatherers
Julia Lehmann (Roehampton): Social complexity and the importance of indirect relationships: social networks in primates
Steven Mithen (Reading): Brain, Mind and Material Culture in Evolutionary Perspective
Dwight Read (UCLA): From Experiential-Based to Relational-Based Forms of Social Organization: A Major Transition in the Evolution of Homo sapiens
Mark Rowlands (Miami): Consciousness and Culture
Richard Sosis (Connecticutt): Evolutionary Signalling Theory and Religion: Recent Advances and Future Directions
Anna Wallette (Lund): Social networks and community in the Viking Age