Cognitive Models in Palaeolithic Archaeology

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Thomas Wynn (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs) Frederick L. Coolidge (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)

Cognitive Models in Palaeolithic Archaeology

Thomas Wynn (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs), Frederick L. Coolidge (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)

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Oxford University Press Inc
31 December 2016

Archaeology by period & region; Cognitivism, cognitive theory; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Human growth & development

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.

Edited by: Thomas Wynn (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Distinguished Professor of Anthropology University of Colorado Colorado Springs), Frederick L. Coolidge (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 496g
ISBN: 9780190204112
ISBN 10: 0190204117
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 31 December 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface 1. Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology 2. The Expert Cognition Model in Human Evolutionary Studies 3. Towards 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. Models, Puddings and the Puzzle Index

Thomas Wynn, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He has published extensively in Palaeolithic archaeology, with a particular emphasis on cognitive evolution. Frederick L. Coolidge, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He focuses primarily on behavioral genetics, paleopsychology, and personality disorders across the lifespan. Both editors are well-known in paleoanthropology as advocates of the enhanced working memory hypothesis for recent cognitive evolution. In 2012, they co-founded the UCCS Center for Cognitive Archaeology. They have also published numerous articles and two books together: The Rise of Homo sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking (2009) and How To Think Like a Neandertal (OUP 2012).

Reviews for Cognitive Models in Palaeolithic Archaeology

< This is an area of great importance in understanding humanity, one of rapid development and one where new views of theory and practice are essential to continued progress. Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge have put together a fascinating new collection that has real substance and is both topical and thought-provoking. It will be a 'must read' for a professional audience, and can provide a useful spine for teaching cognitive evolution modules. This book will certainly be seen as on the cutting edge of current thinking.> * John Gowlett, PhD, Professor of Archaeology, University of Liverpool * < If mind is a process, we need to investigate the relationships among its parts. This book frames cognitive models into an evolutionary perspective, a necessary step to disclose those relationships. Knowledge is about questions, and this publication shows that cognitive archaeology is now looking for its own ones.> * Emiliano Bruner, PhD, Centro Nacional de Investigacion sobre la Evolucion Humana (Espana) * < This offering from the standard bearers of cognitive archaeology will be a stimulating read, with both new ways of looking at the record and new ideas of when and where specific cognitive abilities are first manifested. I am particularly excited by the number of developments in cognition, including in expertise and Theory of Mind, that are suggested to occur within the Acheulean period.> * Ceri Shipton, PhD, Fellow in East African Archaeology, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi; McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge *