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Cognitive archaeology and human evolution / edited by Sophie A. de Beaune, Frederick L. Coolidge, Thomas Wynn.

Contributor(s): Beaune, Sophie A. de | Coolidge, Frederick L. (Frederick Lawrence), 1948- | Wynn, Thomas Grant, 1949-Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. Description: xii, 185 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780521769778 (hbk.); 0521769779 (hbk.); 9780521746113 (pbk.); 0521746116 (pbk.)Subject(s): Archaeology | Cognition and culture | Cognition -- History | Human evolution | Prehistoric peoples | Neuropsychology | Language and languages -- OriginDDC classification: 930.1 LOC classification: CC175 | .C63 2009
Contents:
The emergence of cognitive abilities : the contribution of neuropsychology to archaeology / Sophie A. de Beaune -- Technical invention in the Paleolithic : what if the answer comes from the cognitive and neuropsychological sciences? / Sophie A. de Beaune -- Innovation and creativity : a neuropsychological perspective / Andreas Kyriacou -- The archaeology of consciousness / Matt Rossano -- Prehistoric handedness and prehistoric language / Natalie Uomini -- How to think a simple spear / Miriam Haidle -- Long-term memory and Middle Pleistocene "Mysterians" / Michael J. Walker -- The quest for a common semantics : observations on definitional criteria of cognitive processes in prehistory / Carolina Maestro and Carmine Collina -- Cognition and the emergence of language : a contribution from lithic technology / Jacques Pelegrin -- Language and the origin of symbolic thought / Ian Tattersall -- Implications of a strict standard for recognizing modern cognition in prehistory / Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge -- Imagination and recursion : issues in the emergence of language / Eric Reuland -- Whither evolutionary cognitive archaeology? : afterword / Thomas Wynn.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-175) and index.

The emergence of cognitive abilities : the contribution of neuropsychology to archaeology / Sophie A. de Beaune -- Technical invention in the Paleolithic : what if the answer comes from the cognitive and neuropsychological sciences? / Sophie A. de Beaune -- Innovation and creativity : a neuropsychological perspective / Andreas Kyriacou -- The archaeology of consciousness / Matt Rossano -- Prehistoric handedness and prehistoric language / Natalie Uomini -- How to think a simple spear / Miriam Haidle -- Long-term memory and Middle Pleistocene "Mysterians" / Michael J. Walker -- The quest for a common semantics : observations on definitional criteria of cognitive processes in prehistory / Carolina Maestro and Carmine Collina -- Cognition and the emergence of language : a contribution from lithic technology / Jacques Pelegrin -- Language and the origin of symbolic thought / Ian Tattersall -- Implications of a strict standard for recognizing modern cognition in prehistory / Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge -- Imagination and recursion : issues in the emergence of language / Eric Reuland -- Whither evolutionary cognitive archaeology? : afterword / Thomas Wynn.