The Ideas Before Sports

Prateek Goorha and Jason Potts ()
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Jason Potts: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Chapter Chapter 5 in Creativity and Innovation, 2019, pp 129-160 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The authors present an application of their theory of ideas by undertaking an investigation on the origins of the ideas for a broad class of sports. They begin their search in this chapter for the source of the antecedent idea spaces that provided the core ideas of sports. In doing this, the authors take the long view, presenting the evidence for the very first shared idea spaces that likely developed in human history, including hunting and lithic technology. They examine the case for how these idea spaces assumed a crucial role in the overall idea hierarchy for the key ideas across a range of sports.

Keywords: Lithic technology; Sports; Hunting; Throwing; Nomads (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94884-3_5

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