Tag: The Singing Neanderthals (Harvard University Press 2007)

Portrait of Neanderthal man tending to a fire in a primitive shelter, embodying protection and provider instincts.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 24, 2024

Categorized
Archeology, Neuroscience, Paleontology, Philosophy of Mind

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Dan Dediu, Donna Sarkar, Joshua Katz, Neanderthal Language (Cambridge 2020), Neanderthal speech (bone structure), Neanderthal speech (grammar), Neanderthal speech and metaphor, Petar Gabrić, Rudolph Botha, Stephen C. Levinson, Steven Reading, The Singing Neanderthals (Harvard University Press 2007)}

Could Neanderthals Speak? It Depends on Who You Talk To

_{Theorists who will, sadly, never converse with a living Neanderthal imagine things they could and couldn’t do linguistically} _{Denyse O'Leary
May 24, 2024

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Archeology, Neuroscience, Paleontology, Philosophy of Mind}

Humans can tolerate mysteries quite well as long as we can fill them in with speculations, which in the end tell us mostly about ourselves. Read More ›