Cognitive models in palaeolithic archaeology 1st Edition by Thomas Wynn, Frederick L Coolidge ISBN 0190204117 978-0190204112

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ISBN 10: 0190204117

ISBN 13:  978-0190204112

Author: Thomas Wynn, Frederick L. Coolidge

How did human thought evolve into the highly complex process it is today? In the field of evolutionary cognitive archaeology, cognitive science and archaeology intersect to provide a more complete and grounded picture of the mind. With the combination of cognitive theories and archaeological evidence, this burgeoning field is only beginning to tap into the potential for a better understanding of the development of specific cognitive abilities.
Cognitive Models in Palaeolithic Archaeology explores hominin cognitive development by applying formal cognitive models to analyze prehistoric remains from the entire range of the Palaeolithic, from the earliest stone tools 3.3 million years ago to artistic developments that emerged 50,000 years ago. Several different cognitive models are presented, including expert cognition, information processing, material engagement theory, embodied/extended cognition, neuroaesthetics, visual resonance theory, theory of mind, and neuronal recycling. By examining archaeological remains, and thereby past activities and behavior, through the grounded lenses of these models, a mosaic pattern of human cognitive evolution emerges. This volume, authored by many leading authorities in the field of cognitive archaeology, will attract scholars and students of cognitive evolution and paleoanthropology, who will find a new understanding of hominin cognitive evolution and substantive conclusions about our hominin evolution as opportunities for further research.

Table of contents: 

1. Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology
2. The Expert Cognition Model in Human Evolutionary Studies
3. Toward a Richer Theoretical Scaffolding for Interpreting Archaeological Evidence Concerning Cognitive Evolution
4. Material Engagement and the Embodied Mind
5. Materiality and Numerical Cognition: A Material Engagement Theory Perspective
6. Art Without Symbolic Mind: Embodied Cognition and the Origins of Visual Artistic Behavior
7. Deciphering Patterns in the Archaeology of South Africa: The Neurovisual Resonance Theory
8. Accessing Hominin Cognition: Language and Social Signaling in the Lower to Middle Palaeolithic
9. Bootstrapping Ordinal Thinking
10. Epilogue: Models, Puddings, and the Puzzle

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