The foundations of cognitive archaeology
By: Marc A. Abramiuk
Publisher: MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780262017688
Subjects: Cognition and culture; Mind and body; Archaeology
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a study of the mind in the past in relation to developments in archaeological theory; title: Archaeological perspectives on the mind and associated approaches for studying the mind in the past; title: Concepts and their reconstruction in cognitive archaeology; title: Percepts and their reconstruction in cognitive archaeology; title: Reasoning and its role in the reconstruction of conceptual products and thought processes in cognitive archaeology; title: An introduction to the evolution of the mind; title: An introduction to the emergence of the modern human mind; title: A vision for an ongoing discipline.