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Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution

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Editors:
Sophie A. de Beaune, Université Lyon III
Frederick L. Coolidge, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Thomas Wynn, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Sophie A. de Beaune, Andreas Kyriacou, Matt Rossano, Natalie Uomini, Miriam Haidle, Michael J. Walker, Carolina Maestro, Carmine Collina, Jacques Pelegrin, Ian Tattersall, Thomas Wynn, Frederick L. Coolidge, Eric Reuland

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Date Published: June 2009
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521746113

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This book presents new directions in the study of cognitive archaeology. Seeking to understand the conditions that led to the development of a variety of cognitive processes during evolution, it uses evidence from empirical studies and offers theoretical speculations about the evolution of modern thinking as well. The volume draws from the fields of archaeology and neuropsychology, which traditionally have shared little in the way of theories and methods, even though both disciplines provide crucial pieces to the puzzle of the emergence and evolution of human cognition. The twelve essays, written by an international team of scholars, represent an eclectic array of interests, methods, and theories about evolutionary cognitive archaeology. Collectively, they consider whether the processes in the development of human cognition simply made a better use of anatomical and cerebral structures already in place at the beginning of hominization. They also consider the possibility of an active role of hominoids in their own development and query the impact of hominoid activity in the emergence of new cognitive abilities.
- Conditions of emergence and evolution of modern thinking
- Archaeology and neuropsychology
- Theories and methods about evolutionary cognitive archaeology
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Product details
- Date Published: June 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521746113
- length: 200 pages
- dimensions: 226 x 150 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.27kg
- contains: 17 b/w illus. 2 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The emergence of cognitive abilities: the contribution of neuropsychology to archaeology Sophie A. de Beaune
2. Technical invention in the Paleolithic: what if the answer comes from the cognitive and neuropsychological sciences? Sophie A. de Beaune
3. Innovation and creativity: a neuropsychological perspective Andreas Kyriacou
4. The archaeology of consciousness Matt Rossano
5. Prehistoric handedness and prehistoric language Natalie Uomini
6. How to think a simple spear Miriam Haidle
7. Long-term memory and middle Pleistocene 'mysterians' Michael J. Walker
8. The quest for a common semantics: observations on definitional criteria of cognitive processes in prehistory Carolina Maestro and Carmine Collina
9. Cognition and the emergence of language: a contribution from lithic technology Jacques Pelegrin
10. Language and the origin of symbolic thought Ian Tattersall
11. Implications of a strict standard for recognizing modern cognition in the Paleolithic Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge
12. Imagination and recursion: issues in the emergence of language Eric Reuland
13. Whither evolutionary cognitive archaeology? Thomas Wynn.
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Sophie A. de Beaune, Université Lyon III
Sophie A. de Beaune is Professor of Prehistory at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 and researcher at CNRS in France. The author of eight books, most recently L'Homme et l'Outil: L'Invention technique durant la Préhistoire, she is also director of a book series entitled 'Le passé recomposé' at CNRS Editions.
Frederick L. Coolidge, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Frederick L. Coolidge is Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He has published extensively in behavioral genetics, neuropsychology, psychopathology assessment, and cognitive archaeology, with recent articles in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, the Journal of Human Evolution, and the Journal of Archaeological Research, among others.
Thomas Wynn, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Thomas Wynn is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He has published extensively on the evolution of human cognition, culminating in a target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2002).
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Sophie A. de Beaune, Andreas Kyriacou, Matt Rossano, Natalie Uomini, Miriam Haidle, Michael J. Walker, Carolina Maestro, Carmine Collina, Jacques Pelegrin, Ian Tattersall, Thomas Wynn, Frederick L. Coolidge, Eric Reuland