A forthcoming issue of EXPRESSION quarterly
 journal on Conceptual Anthropology.

 Dear colleague and friend,
 In the last issue of EXPRESSION you will find
 the announcement of a forthcoming issue: “Changes, adaptation and
 development of intellectual and spiritual expressions”. How does the
 dynamic of change emerge from archeological living sites, cult sites,
 material culture, art, myths, beliefs, and other traces of human
 behavior? The last issue of EXPRESSION may be requested
 for free, providing your postal address, to: <[log in to unmask]>.
 Claims that climatic changes are the main cause of cultural
modification are confronted with other causes present also in recent
tribal societies. Changes in the
 geographical location and in food resources of a human group,
migrations, conflict and
 peaceful meetings with other human groups, changes in the size and
 composition of social units, new inventions, development of technology,
 local social relations and events, discovery, conceptual
elaborations, imagination,
 and other factors play their role. Man, as actor of his own destiny is
 no less important than man as spectator and victim of climatic events.
 Our task as active members of in the UISPP-CISENP International
 Scientific Commission, of ATELIER Research Center or as authors and readers
 of EXPRESSION journal, is not only that of recording the changes, but
also that of
 understanding the processes, reasons and motivations that caused changes and
 development, and detect trends in human conceptual evolution.
  In previous issues of EXPRESSION some major pertinent issues were
 faced already, like the function of fire in cultural evolution, the
query of how an age of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania suddenly turned
into a period of vegetarian
 food-collectors, how the spread of a specific kind of hermetic
figures related to megalithic monuments reveal the diffusion of a new
conceptual view of the afterworld, or how the conceptual content and
the syntactic structure of rock art changed with the
 introduction of the bow-and-arrow.
 Asking questions is as important as proposing their eventual
solutions. Do not hesitate to ask questions. Asking question is as
important as proposing solutions, it is the source of human conceptual
evolution.
  Colleagues and friends are invited to contribute with specific
themes, sharing their experience, knowledge and ideas. When possible,
consider the dynamic relations between
 cause and effect. Titles and short abstracts are welcome. Papers
proposed for publication should be submitted to this editorial
office:<[log in to unmask]>. Tentative deadline: May 10, 2019.
 Looking forward to hearing from you,
 Best wishes and cordial regards,
 Emmanuel Anati
 (President, Atelier Research Center for Conceptual Anthropology;
 Editor, ATELIER quarterly journal)
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