Space: The final frontier?
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2019-02-28

Spatial cognition may be one of the most intuitive avenues for studying the prehistoric mind. Archaeologists are accustomed to studying human behaviour in a spatial context. Furthermore, landscape archaeology has accustomed us to thinking about how humans perceive(d) the landscape and conversely, how the landscape shapes (or has shaped) human perception. This paper explores what the archaeological record can tell us about human perception of the landscape in the past and how this informs us about spatial cognition. 

Ariane Burke (Universite de Montreal)