Squeezing Minds From Stones

Cognitive Archaeology and the Evolution of the Human Mind
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-085461-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 546 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 975 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Overmann, Karenleigh A.

Coolidge, Frederick L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Cognitive Archaeology at the Crossroads

- Karenleigh A. Overmann and Frederick L. Coolidge

- 1. A Simian View of the Oldowan: Reconstructing the Evolutionary Origins of Human Technology

- William C. McGrew, Tiago Falótico, Michael D. Gumert, and Eduardo B. Ottoni

- 2. Homo artifex: An Extended Evolutionary Perspective on the Origins of the Human Mind, Brain, and Culture

- Dietrich Stout

- 3. Looking at Rocks Together: Tool Production, Joint Attention, and Offline Cognition

- Rex Welshon

- 4. Evolution of Cognitive Archaeology through Evolving Cognitive Systems: A Chapter for Tom Wynn

- Iain Davidson

- 5. Sticks, Stones, and the Origins of Sapience

- Philip J. Barnard

- 6. The Origin of Cumulative Culture: Not a Single-Trait Event But Multifactorial Processes

- Miriam Noël Haidle

- 7. Hominin Evolution and Stone Tool Scavenging and Reuse in the Lower Paleolithic

- Adam Brumm, Matt Pope, Mathieu Leroyer, and Kate Emery

- 8. Flake-Making and the "Cognitive Rubicon": Insights from Stone-Knapping Experiments

- Mark W. Moore

- 9. Stone Tools and Spatial Cognition

- Derek Hodgson

- 10. Testing Models of Handedness in Stone Tools

- Natalie Uomini and Lana Ruck

- 11. Early Convergent Cultural Evolution: Acheulean Giant Core Methods of Africa

- Gonen Sharon

- 12. Cultural Transmission from the Last Common Ancestor to the Levallois Reducers: What Can We Infer?

- Stephen J. Lycett

- 13. The Handaxe Aesthetic

- Thomas Wynn and Tony Berlant

- 14. The Stories Stones Tell of Language and Its Evolution

- Shelby S. Putt

- 15. In Three Minds: Extending Cognitive Archaeology with the Social Brain

- Cory Stade and Clive Gamble

- 16. The Evolution of Social Transmission in the Acheulean

- Ceri Shipton

- 17. Knapping in the Dark: Stone Tools and a Theory of Mind

- James Cole

- 18. A Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Sexual Division of Tasks in the European Upper Paleolithic

- Sophie A. de Beaune

- 19. The Enhanced Working Memory Model: Its Origin and Development

- Frederick L. Coolidge

- 20. Materiality and the Prehistory of Number

- Karenleigh A. Overmann

- 21. Ensnaring the Mind: Cognitive Implications of Setting Snares and Traps

- Lyn Wadley

- 22. On the Minds of Bow Hunters

- Marlize Lombard

- 23. Epilogue: Situating the Cognitive in Cognitive Archaeology

- Thomas Wynn

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Karenleigh A. Overmann has a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Oxford, as well as a master's in psychology and bachelor's in anthropology, philosophy, and English from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS). She is a founding member of the faculty of the UCCS Center for Cognitive Archaeology, and in June 2018 she began an MSCA individual fellowship at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her primary research investigates numeracy and literacy as complex cultural systems that emerge through sustained interactions between brains, behaviors, and material forms. Her previous career was in the U.S. Navy, where she performed communications-electronics work as an enlisted Radioman before earning a commission under the Limited Duty Officer program; she retired with 25 years active service in 2003.

Professor Frederick L. Coolidge has a PhD from the University of Florida and completed a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology. He is a three-time

Fulbright Fellow recipient and has three teaching awards and two research awards from the University of Colorado. He was appointed Senior Visiting Scholar to Oxford University (Keble College) in 2015 and Visiting Scholar to the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar from 2014-2018.