Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution
Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution by Sophie A. de Beaune, published by Cambridge University Press on June 22, 2009, explores innovative approaches in the field of cognitive archaeology. This 200-page volume examines the conditions that contributed to the evolution of various cognitive processes, drawing on empirical studies and theoretical insights. It integrates perspectives from archaeology and neuropsychology, two disciplines that have historically operated in isolation despite their relevance to understanding human cognition’s emergence and evolution.
Readers will find a collection of twelve essays authored by an international team of scholars, each presenting diverse interests, methods, and theories related to evolutionary cognitive archaeology. The essays investigate whether the development of human cognition involved optimizing existing anatomical and cerebral structures or if hominoids actively influenced their cognitive evolution. This edition provides a comprehensive look at the interplay between cognitive processes and evolutionary development, making it a significant contribution to the fields of social science, archaeology, and paleontology.
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This book presents new directions in the study of cognitive archaeology. Seeking to understand the conditions that led to the development of a variety of cognitive processes during evolution, it uses evidence from empirical studies and offers theoretical speculations about the evolution of modern thinking as well. The volume draws from the fields of archaeology and neuropsychology, which traditionally have shared little in the way of theories and methods, even though both disciplines provide crucial pieces to the puzzle of the emergence and evolution of human cognition. The twelve essays, written by an international team of scholars, represent an eclectic array of interests, methods, and theories about evolutionary cognitive archaeology. Collectively, they consider whether the processes in the development of human cognition simply made a better use of anatomical and cerebral structures already in place at the beginning of hominization. They also consider the possibility of an active role of hominoids in their own development and query the impact of hominoid activity in the emergence of new cognitive abilities.
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