Title: The foundations of cognitive archaeology /
Authors: Abramiuk, Marc A., 1973-
Publisher: MIT Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Archaeology; Cognition and culture.; Mind and body
Abstract: "In The foundations of cognitive archaeology, Marc Abramiuk proposes a multidisciplinary basis for the study of the mind in the past, arguing that archaeology and the cognitive sciences have much to offer one another. Abramiuk draws on relevant topics from philosophy, biological anthropology, cognitive psychology, cognitive anthropology, and archaeology to establish theoretically founded and empirically substantiated principles of a discipline that integrates different approaches to mind-related archaeological research. ..." --Publisher description.
Contents: Toward a study of the mind in the past in relation to developments in archaeological theory -- Archaeological perspectives on the mind and associated approaches for studying the mind in the past -- Concepts and their reconstruction in cognitive archaeology -- Percepts and their reconstruction in cognitive archaeology -- Reasoning and its role in reconstructing conceptual products and inferring cognitive capabilities in cognitive archaeology -- An introduction to the evolution of the mind -- An introduction to the emergence of the modern human mind -- A vision for an ongoing discipline.