Squeezing Minds from Stones: Cognitive Archaeology and the Evolution of the Human Mind 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0190854634
• ISBN-13: 9780190854638
• Author: Karenleigh A Overmann, Frederick L Coolidge

Cognitive archaeology is a relatively new interdisciplinary science that uses cognitive and psychological models to explain archeological artifacts like stone tools, figurines, and art. Squeezing Minds From Stones is a collection of essays from early pioneers in the field, like archaeologists Thomas Wynn and Iain Davidson, and evolutionary primatologist William McGrew, to ‘up and coming’ newcomers like Shelby Putt, Ceri Shipton, Mark Moore, James Cole, Natalie Uomini, and Lana Ruck. Their essays address a wide variety of cognitive archaeology topics, including the value of experimental archaeology, primate archaeology, the intent of ancient tool makers, and how they may have lived and thought.

Table contents:

1. A Simian View of the Oldowan: Reconstructing the Evolutionary Origins of Human Technology
2. Homo artifex: An Extended Evolutionary Perspective on the Origins of the Human Mind, Brain, and Culture
3. Looking at Rocks Together: Tool Production, Joint Attention, and Offline Cognition
4. Evolution of Cognitive Archaeology through Evolving Cognitive Systems: A Chapter for Tom Wynn
5. Sticks, Stones, and the Origins of Sapience
6. The Origin of Cumulative Culture: Not a Single-Trait Event But Multifactorial Processes
7. Hominin Evolution and Stone Tool Scavenging and Reuse in the Lower Paleolithic
8. Flake-Making and the “Cognitive Rubicon”: Insights from Stone-Knapping Experiments
9. Stone Tools and Spatial Cognition
10. Testing Models of Handedness in Stone Tools
11. Early Convergent Cultural Evolution: Acheulean Giant Core Methods of Africa
12. Cultural Transmission from the Last Common Ancestor to the Levallois Reducers: What Can We Infer?
13. The Handaxe Aesthetic
14. The Stories Stones Tell of Language and Its Evolution
15. In Three Minds: Extending Cognitive Archaeology with the Social Brain
16. The Evolution of Social Transmission in the Acheulean
17. Knapping in the Dark: Stone Tools and a Theory of Mind
18. A Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Sexual Division of Tasks in the European Upper Paleolithic
19. The Enhanced Working Memory Model: Its Origin and Development
20. Materiality and the Prehistory of Number
21. Ensnaring the Mind: Cognitive Implications of Setting Snares and Traps
22. On the Minds of Bow Hunters
23. Epilogue: Situating the Cognitive in Cognitive Archaeology

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