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Cognitive models in palaeolithic archaeology / edited by Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2017. - x, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes index. "Cognitive Models in Palaeolithic Archaeology grew out of a specialized thematic session that we organized for the 2013 meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Evolutionary cognitive archaeology -- The expert cognition model in human evolutionary studies -- Towards a richer theoretical scaffolding for interpreting archaeological evidence concerning cognitive evolution -- Material engagement and the embodied mind -- Materiality and numerical cognition: a material engagement theory perspective -- Art without symbolic mind: embodied cognition and the origins of visual artistic behavior -- Deciphering patterns in the archaeology of South Africa: the neurovisual resonance theory -- Accessing hominin cognition: language and social signaling in the lower to middle palaeolithic -- Bootstrapping ordinal thinking -- Models, puddings and the puzzle.

ISBN: 9780190204112 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2016013639

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Archaeology.
Cognition and culture.
Cognition--History.
Human evolution.
Prehistoric peoples.
Paleolithic period.
Psychology, Comparative.

LC Class. No.: CC175 / .C634 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 930.1 / WYN-C