Monograph No. 33
Problem-Solving and the Evolution of Human Culture
Steven Mithen
1999
This paper derives from a presentation at Human Solutions: Problem Solving and Society, a seminar given by The Institute For Cultural Research in January 1998.
The author: Dr. Steven Mithen is Reader in Early Prehistory at the University of Reading, having studied at the Universities of Sheffield, York and Cambridge. His archaeological fieldwork focuses on the late Pleistocene and early Holocene hunter-gatherers, having excavated in Western Scotland.
His books have been concerned with prehistoric behaviour and cognition: Thoughtful Foragers: a Study of Prehistoric Decision-making (CUP, 1990); The Prehistory of the Mind Thames & Hudson, 1996/Phoenix, 1998); Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory (Ed. Routledge, 1998).