Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution

Herausgeber: Coolidge, Frederick L.; Wynn, Thomas; De Beaune, Sophie

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Produktbeschreibung

Uses evidence from empirical studies to understand conditions that led to the development of cognitive processes during evolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780521746113
• ISBN-10: 0521746116
• Artikelnr.: 26106407

Inhaltsangabe

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.