Table of Contents

1. Editors' introduction; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Chapter 1. Pan symbolicus: A cultural primatologist's viewpoint (by McGrew, William C.); 4. Chapter 2. The evolution and the rise of human language: Carry the baby (by Savage-Rumbaugh, E. Sue); 5. Chapter 3. The origin of symbolically mediated behaviour: From antagonistic scenarios to a unified research strategy (by d'Errico, Francesco); 6. Chapter 4. Middle Stone Age engravings and their significance to the debate on the emergence of symbolic material culture (by Henshilwood, Christopher S.); 7. Chapter 5. Complex cognition required for compound adhesive manufacture in the Middle Stone Age implies symbolic capacity (by Wadley, Lyn); 8. Chapter 6. The emergence of language, art and symbolic thinking: A Neandertal test of competing hypotheses (by Zilhao, Joao); 9. Chapter 7. The human major transition in relation to symbolic behaviour, including language, imagination, and spirituality (by Sloan Wilson, David); 10. Chapter 8. The living as symbols, the dead as symbols: problematising the scale and pace of hominin symbolic evolution (by Pettitt, Paul); 11. Chapter 9. Biology and mechanisms related to the dawn of language (by Ellis, George F.R.); 12. Chapter 10. The other middle-range theories: Mapping behaviour and the evolution of the mind (by Dubreuil, Benoit); 13. Chapter 11. Metarepresentation, Homo religiosus, and Homo symbolicus (by Barrett, Justin L.); 14. Index