Explores the origin and growth of the human mind, drawing on archaeology, history, and the fossil record.

Table of Contents

• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Modernity and Infinity
• External Thought
• The Core Property
• The Phenomenon of Mind
• Leviathan
• Philosophie der Technik
• A Fossil Record of Thought
• Daydreams of the Lower Paleolithic
• The Evolutionary Biology of the Mind
• The Visual Animal
• The Somesthetic Animal: Bipedalism and the Human Hand
• From Pebble Tools to Bifaces:? The Emergence of External Thought
• Landscape of the Proto-Mind
• Modern Humans and the Super-Brain
• Emergence
• The Information Animal
• The Levallois School of Language
• The Archaeology of Alternative Reality
• The Upper Paleolithic as History
• The Age of Art and Music
• The Gravettian: An Industrial Revolution
• The Periglacial Village
• Mindscapes of the Postglacial Epoch
• The Civilized Mind
• An Alternative Landscape
• An Age of Stone
• The Modern World as a Change of Mind
• People Without History?
• The Vision Animal
• The Mind as History
• A History of the Future
• Bibliography