Cognitive archaeology and human evolution
By: edited by Sophie de Beaune, Frederick Coolidge.
Contributors: Beaune, Sophie A. de.; Coolidge, Frederick L. 1948-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780521769778; 9780521746113
Subjects: Archaeology; Cognition and culture; Cognition -- History; Human evolution; Prehistoric peoples; Neuropsychology; Language and languages -- Origin
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The emergence of cognitive abilities : the contribution of neuropsychology to archaeology : foreword / Sophie A. de Beaune; title: Technical invention in the Paleolithic : what if the answer comes from the cognitive and neuropsychological sciences? / Sophie A. de Beaune; title: Innovation and creativity : a neuropsychological perspective / Andreas Kyriacou; title: The archaeology of consciousness / Matt Rossano; title: Prehistoric handedness and prehistoric language / Natalie Uomini; title: How to think a simple spear / Miriam Haidle; title: Long-term memory and Middle Pleistocene "Mysterians" / Michael J. Walker; title: The quest for a common semantics : observations on definitional criteria of cognitive processes in prehistory / Carolina Maestro and Carmine Collina; title: Cognition and the emergence of language : a contribution from lithic technology / Jacques Pelegrin; title: Language and the origin of symbolic thought / Ian Tattersall; title: Implications of a strict standard for recognizing modern cognition in the Palaeolithic / Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge; title: Imagination and recursion : issues in the emergence of language / Eric Reuland; title: Whither evolutionary cognitive archaeology? : afterword / Thomas Wynn.