El. knyga: Evolution of Human Consciousness and Linguistic Behavior: A Synthetic Approach to the Anthropology and Archaeology of Language Origins

Karen A. Haworth holds a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Houston and an M.A. in Psychology from the University of West Florida, and worked as an office administrator in the Departments of Art and English at UWF. Her work on language origins includes scholarly essays and conference appearances over the past 30 years. She has been a member of the Language Origins Society and the Semiotic Society of America, and has served as an editor for Semiotic Society publications. Since retirement, Karen has continued academic studies as an independent scholar

Terry J. Prewitt is a retired professor, having taught and conducted research at the University of West Florida from 1981 through 2012. He began his career at University of Houston and University of Tulsa, and was a visiting exchange Professor at University College Dublin in 1986. He holds a B.A. in anthropology from San Diego State University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma, and has been actively engaged in anthropological studies since the late 1960s. He has authored books, monographs, and articles on ethnography, archaeology, semiotics, anthropology of religion, and critical theory, and served was a long-term Executive Director and editor for the Semiotic Society of America.