... the way that people inhabit a landscape, and the extent to which new material and symbolic media transformed their existence, at the level of everyday tasks, routine movements, and habitual activities. Importantly, different facets of this transformation might not all have proceeded at the same rate...

... the region’s rock art within a series of contexts that might enhance our understanding of its significance. These contexts include ethnographic access to continuities in the production and meaning of art and an appreciation of the embeddedness of rock art within a suite of other symbolic media, allowing...

...This chapter examines some of the growing literature on symbol-based learning in the first few years of life. It focuses on recent research involving two of the most common and influential symbolic media in the lives of very young children: language and pictures. It is shown that very young...