Prehistoric Minds: Human Origins as a Cultural Artefact, 1780-2010

Special Issue of Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London

http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/current/

Guest editorial:

Matthew D. Eddy

The prehistoric mind as a historical artefact

Matthew D. Eddy

The line of reason: Hugh Blair, spatiality and the progressive structure of language

Paul B. Pettitt and Mark J. White

Cave men: Stone tools, Victorian science, and the ‘primitive mind’ of deep time

Clive Gamble and Theodora Moutsiou

The time revolution of 1859 and the stratification of the primeval mind

Marianne Sommer

Human tools of the European tertiary? Artefacts, brains and minds in evolutionist reasoning, 1870–1920

Peter C. Kjærgaard

‘Hurrah for the missing link!’: a history of apes, ancestors and a crucial piece of evidence

Dr Matthew D Eddy, Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 50 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN, United Kingdom. (44) 191 334 6550. http://www.dur.ac.uk/m.d.eddy/