An examination of our language instinct. Steven Mithen draws on a huge range of sources, from neurological case studies, through child psychology and the commun

As an archaeologist, Steven Mithen has worked on the Hebridean island of Islay over a period of many years. In this book he introduces the sites and monuments a

Steven Mithen's unique history of water and society in the ancient world has never been told before and is particularly relevant today in the face of global cli

In this book, the authors provide a fascinating narrative of the mental life of Neandertals, to the extent that it can be reconstructed from fossil and archaeol

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the