Cognitive models in palaeolithic archaeology / edited by Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wynn, Thomas Grant, 1949- editor.

Coolidge, Frederick L. (Frederick Lawrence), 1948- editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology.

Cognition and culture.

Cognition--History.

Cognition.

Human evolution.

Prehistoric peoples.

Paleolithic period.

Psychology, Comparative.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Cognitive Models in Palaeolithic Archaeology grew out of a specialized thematic session that we organized for the 2013 meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution"--Preface.

Contents:

Evolutionary cognitive archaeology

The expert cognition model in human evolutionary studies

Towards a richer theoretical scaffolding for interpreting archaeological evidence concerning cognitive evolution

Material engagement and the embodied mind

Materiality and numerical cognition: a material engagement theory perspective

Art without symbolic mind: embodied cognition and the origins of visual artistic behavior

Deciphering patterns in the archaeology of South Africa: the neurovisual resonance theory

Accessing hominin cognition: language and social signaling in the lower to middle palaeolithic

Bootstrapping ordinal thinking

Models, puddings and the puzzle.

Notes:

Includes index.

"Cognitive Models in Palaeolithic Archaeology grew out of a specialized thematic session that we organized for the 2013 meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780190204112

0190204117

OCLC:

952226424

Publisher Number:

99972578440