37.943, Books: Early Body Ornaments and the Origins of Our Semiotic Mind: Iliopoulos (2026)

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Date: 25-Feb-2026
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Early Body Ornaments and the Origins of Our Semiotic Mind: Iliopoulos (2026)


Title: Early Body Ornaments and the Origins of Our Semiotic Mind
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/early-body-ornaments-and-the-origins-of-our-semiotic-mind-9781350260078/

Author(s): Antonis Iliopoulos

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350260078, Price: £95.00

Abstract:

By employing a cognitive semiotic theory based on pragmatism and
enactivism, this book explores the nature and emergence of early body
ornamentation, which has long been at the forefront of the debate on
modern human origins.
Using artifacts such as ocher pigments and the Blombos Cave shell
beads, the book examines the connection between early body ornaments
and the semiotic mind, and addresses the question of whether early
body ornaments were made by a symbolic mind, or whether they provided
the material and semiotic scaffolding required for such a mind to
emerge.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     General Linguistics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics




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