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Peircean Semiotics in Pleistocene Symbols by Nancy Morales is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document discusses using Peircean semiotics to analyze artifacts from the Pleistocene archaeological record that may represent early symbolic behavior in humans. It argues that focusing on how artifacts functioned as signs (qualisigns, sinsigns, legisigns), rather than what they symbolized, can provide insights. Sporadic artifacts may have functioned as sinsigns, while standardized artifacts at sites indicate legisigns representing codified ideas. This framework is applied to three artifact classes to
- Author
- Nancy Morales
- Language
- EN