| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 531 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : cognitive archaeology at the crossroads / Karenleigh A. Overmann and Frederick L. Coolidge -- A simian view of the Oldowan : reconstructing the evolutionary origins of human technology / William C. McGrew, Tiago Falótico, Michael D. Gumert, and Eduardo B. Ottoni -- Homo artifex : an extended evolutionary perspective on the origins of the human mind, brain, and culture / Dietrich Stout -- Looking at rocks together : tool production, joint attention, and offline cognition / Rex Welshon -- Evolution of cognitive archaeology through evolving cognitive systems : a chapter for Tom Wynn / Iain Davidson -- Sticks, stones, and the origins of sapience / Philip J. Barnard -- The origin of cumulative culture : not a single-trait event but multifactorial processes / Miriam Noël Haidle -- Hominin evolution and stone tool scavenging and reuse in the lower paleolithic / Adam Brumm, Matt Pope, Mathieu Leroyer, and Kate Emery -- Flake-making and the "cognitive Rubicon" : insights from stone-knapping experiments / Mark W. Moore -- Stone tools and spatial cognition / Derek Hodgson -- Testing models of handedness in stone tools / Natalie Uomini and Lana Ruck -- Early convergent cultural evolution : Acheulean giant core methods of Africa / Gonen Sharon -- Cultural transmission from the last common ancestor to the Levallois reducers : what can we infer? / Stephen J. Lycett -- The handaxe aesthetic / Thomas Wynn and Tony Berlant -- The stories stones tell of language and its evolution / Shelby S. Putt -- In three minds : extending cognitive archaeology with the social brain / Cory Stade and Clive Gamble -- The evolution of social transmission in the Acheulean / Ceri Shipton -- Knapping in the dark : stone tools and a theory of mind / James Cole -- A critical analysis of the evidence for sexual division of tasks in the European Upper Paleolithic / Sophie A. de Beaune -- The enhanced working memory model : its origin and development / Frederick L. Coolidge -- Materiality and the prehistory of number / Karenleigh A. Overmann -- Ensnaring the mind : cognitive implications of setting snares and traps / Lyn Wadley -- On the minds of bow hunters / Marlize Lombard -- Epilogue : situating the cognitive in cognitive archaeology / Thomas Wynn |
| Summary |
"This anthology celebrates 40 years of an archaeology of mind, the investigation of how the modern human mind emerged, as discerned through material artifacts such as the stone tools used throughout the Paleolithic and the hunting technologies and numbers found in the Neolithic. The contributions by established and emerging scholars cover a wide variety of topics in cognitive archaeology, including the evolutionary bases for cognition, how stone tools may reflect the brains and minds of their makers, when and how stone tools move from the practical to the aesthetic, and the social implications of archaeological artifacts and their relationships to attention, language, working memory, materiality, and numbers."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Neuroanthropology.
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Cognition and culture.
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Neuropsychology.
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Culture.
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Mental Processes -- physiology
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Culture
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culture note.
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MEDICAL -- Physiology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
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Culture.
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Cognition and culture.
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Neuroanthropology.
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Neuropsychology.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Overmann, Karenleigh A. (Karenleigh Anne), 1957- editor.
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Coolidge, Frederick L. (Frederick Lawrence), 1948- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780190854645 |
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0190854642 |
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9780190854621 |
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0190854626 |
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