Resumo
Talk by Miriam Haidle. Human culture has two main fields: subsistence and attention. In human evolution, the culture of attention has been enormously diversified and created completely new forms of communication. In this talk, I will draw your attention to the interdependencies of spatial, auditory, and visual culture to direct focus. Our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, are a social, tool using and communicative species. However, different from humans, their culture of attention is limited. Based on subsistence behaviour, early humans created situations and social places that fostered cooperation and communication - both direct and triadic. Base camps, fireplaces, simple architectural structures, the use of special environments such as deep caves and the creation of somehow restricted areas such as burial sites show the interplay between an increasingly conscious direction of focus and a change in subsistence.