Mythos & Symbolic Humanity: Paired Literary-Scientific Visions - Language, Stone-Shaping, and the Birth of Culture

Mythos & Symbolic Humanity presents an integrated literary–scientific exploration of the emergence of symbolic behavior in the human lineage. Part I (Mythos) is a research-informed narrative following a small hominin family—Tod, Zoe, and child Toumai—across deep time nodes of tool innovation, fire use, and communicative complexity. Archetypal figures (e.g., "e;Rock Man"e;) embody material and cogn...