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An Introduction to Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology is the first
concise introduction that lays out the epistemological foundations
of evolutionary cognitive archaeology in a way that is accessible
to students. The volume is divided into three sections. The first
section situates cognitive archaeology in the pantheon of
archaeological approaches and distinguishes between ideational
cognitive archaeology and evolutionary cognitive archaeology. This
is followed by a close look at the nature of cognitive
archaeological inferences and concludes with brief summaries of the
major methods of evolutionary cognitive archaeology. The second
section of the book introduces the reader to a variety of cognitive
phenomena that are accessible using the methods of cognitive
archaeology: memory, technical cognition, spatial cognition, social
cognition, art and aesthetics, and symbolism and language. The
third section presents a brief outline of hominin cognitive
evolution from the perspective of evolutionary cognitive
archaeology. The authors divide the archaeological record into
three major phases: The Bipedal Apes-3.3 million-1.7 million years
ago; The Axe Age-1.7 million-300,000 years ago; and The Emergence
of Modern Thinking-300,000-12,000 years ago. An Introduction to
Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology is an essential text for
undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars across the
behavioral and social sciences interested in learning about
cognitive archaeology, including psychologists, philosophers,
anthropologists, and archaeologists.
An Introduction to Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology is the first
concise introduction that lays out the epistemological foundations
of evolutionary cognitive archaeology in a way that is accessible
to students. The volume is divided into three sections. The first
section situates cognitive archaeology in the pantheon of
archaeological approaches and distinguishes between ideational
cognitive archaeology and evolutionary cognitive archaeology. This
is followed by a close look at the nature of cognitive
archaeological inferences and concludes with brief summaries of the
major methods of evolutionary cognitive archaeology. The second
section of the book introduces the reader to a variety of cognitive
phenomena that are accessible using the methods of cognitive
archaeology: memory, technical cognition, spatial cognition, social
cognition, art and aesthetics, and symbolism and language. The
third section presents a brief outline of hominin cognitive
evolution from the perspective of evolutionary cognitive
archaeology. The authors divide the archaeological record into
three major phases: The Bipedal Apes-3.3 million-1.7 million years
ago; The Axe Age-1.7 million-300,000 years ago; and The Emergence
of Modern Thinking-300,000-12,000 years ago. An Introduction to
Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology is an essential text for
undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars across the
behavioral and social sciences interested in learning about
cognitive archaeology, including psychologists, philosophers,
anthropologists, and archaeologists.
The Science of Dream Interpretation presents a scientific, historic
and psychological account of dream interpretation by introducing
the biological and evolutionary foundations of sleep, dreams and
dream interpretation. Chapters cover the theory of dream
interpretation, the physiological and evolutionary reasons for
sleep and dreaming, an overview of the role dreams and dream
interpretation throughout history, including the cultural and
religious significance of dreams, and how dreams interrupt sleep,
including issues of insomnia, sleep walking, and more. The next few
sections present influential dream theorists of the 20th century,
including a review of their theories (Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and
Fritz Perls). The final section explains how dreams may be used to
extract personal meanings and be utilized in psychotherapy,
including case examples from actual psychotherapy sessions of the
techniques used to interpret dreams.
The Fourth Edition of Statistics: A Gentle Introduction shows
students that an introductory statistics class doesn't need to be
difficult or dull. This text minimizes students' anxieties about
math by explaining the concepts of statistics in plain language
first, before addressing the math. Each formula within the text has
a step-by-step example to demonstrate the calculation so students
can follow along. Only those formulas that are important for final
calculations are included in the text so students can focus on the
concepts, not the numbers. A wealth of real-world examples and
applications gives a context for statistics in the real world and
how it helps us solve problems and make informed choices. New to
the Fourth Edition are sections on working with big data, new
coverage of alternative non-parametric tests, beta coefficients,
and the "nocebo effect," discussions of p values in the context of
research, an expanded discussion of confidence intervals, and more
exercises and homework options under the new feature "Test
Yourself." Included with this title: The password-protected
Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers
access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and
editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint (R) slides.
In Evolutionary Neuropsychology, Frederick L. Coolidge examines the
evolutionary origins of the human brain's present structures and
functions, and traces these origins from the first life forms,
through the development of consciousness, to modern human thinking.
A new multidisciplinary science, evolutionary neuropsychology
embraces and uses empirical findings from the fields of evolution,
neuroscience, cognitive sciences, psychology, anthropology, and
archaeology. The bedrock foundation of evolutionary neuropsychology
is the assumption that functionally-specialized brain regions are
adaptations naturally selected in response to various environmental
challenges over the course of billions of years of evolution. These
adaptations and their brain regions and circuitry may now serve new
functions, which are called exaptations, and they are particularly
involved in higher cognitive functions.
The Rise of Homo sapiens provides an unrivalled interdisciplinary
introduction to the subject of hominin cognitive evolution that is
appropriate for general audiences and students in psychology,
archaeology, and anthropology. The book includes chapters on neural
anatomy, working memory, evolutionary methods, and non-human
primate cognition, but the bulk of the text reviews major
developments in cognition over the span of hominin evolution from
the ape-like cognition of Ardipithecus to the final developments
that enabled the modern mind. The most provocative chapters of the
first edition - the explicit discussion of the role of sleep in
hominin evolution and the difference between Neandertal and modern
human cognition - incorporate significant developments in both
areas since the publication of the first edition. This revised
edition updates the former text and adds greater emphasis to the
growing fields of epigenetic inheritance, embodied cognition, and
neuroaesthetics. The new edition provides greater emphasis on role
and status of Homo heidelbergensis.
How did human thought evolve into the highly complex process it is
today? In the field of evolutionary cognitive archaeology,
cognitive science and archaeology intersect to provide a more
complete and grounded picture of the mind. With the combination of
cognitive theories and archaeological evidence, this burgeoning
field is only beginning to tap into the potential for a better
understanding of the development of specific cognitive abilities.
Cognitive Models in Palaeolithic Archaeology explores hominin
cognitive development by applying formal cognitive models to
analyze prehistoric remains from the entire range of the
Palaeolithic, from the earliest stone tools 3.3 million years ago
to artistic developments that emerged 50,000 years ago. Several
different cognitive models are presented, including expert
cognition, information processing, material engagement theory,
embodied/extended cognition, neuroaesthetics, visual resonance
theory, theory of mind, and neuronal recycling. By examining
archaeological remains, and thereby past activities and behavior,
through the grounded lenses of these models, a mosaic pattern of
human cognitive evolution emerges. This volume, authored by many
leading authorities in the field of cognitive archaeology, will
attract scholars and students of cognitive evolution and
paleoanthropology, who will find a new understanding of hominin
cognitive evolution and substantive conclusions about our hominin
evolution as opportunities for further research.
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.
There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials
featuring Neandertals-some serious, some comical. But what was it
really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or
different from ours? In How to Think Like a Neandertal,
archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick L. Coolidge
team up to provide a brilliant account of the mental life of
Neandertals, drawing on the most recent fossil and archaeological
remains. Indeed, some Neandertal remains are not fossilized,
allowing scientists to recover samples of their genes-one specimen
had the gene for red hair and, more provocatively, all had a gene
called FOXP2, which is thought to be related to speech. Given the
differences between their faces and ours, their voices probably
sounded a bit different, and the range of consonants and vowels
they could generate might have been different. But they could talk,
and they had a large (perhaps huge) vocabulary-words for places,
routes, techniques, individuals, and emotions. Extensive
archaeological remains of stone tools and living sites (and, yes,
they did often live in caves) indicate that Neandertals relied on
complex technical procedures and spent most of their lives in small
family groups. The authors sift the evidence that Neandertals had a
symbolic culture-looking at their treatment of corpses, the use of
fire, and possible body coloring-and conclude that they probably
did not have a sense of the supernatural. The book explores the
brutal nature of their lives, especially in northwestern Europe,
where men and women with spears hunted together for mammoths and
wooly rhinoceroses. They were pain tolerant, very likely taciturn,
and not easy to excite. Wynn and Coolidge offer here an eye-opening
portrait of Neandertals, painting a remarkable picture of these
long-vanished people and providing insight, as they go along, into
our own minds and culture.
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.
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.
There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials
featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it
really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or
different from ours?
In How to Think Like a Neandertal, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and
psychologist Frederick L. Coolidge team up to provide a brilliant
account of the mental life of Neandertals, drawing on the most
recent fossil and archaeological remains. Indeed, some Neandertal
remains are not fossilized, allowing scientists to recover samples
of their genes--one specimen had the gene for red hair and, more
provocatively, all had a gene called FOXP2, which is thought to be
related to speech. Given the differences between their faces and
ours, their voices probably sounded a bit different, and the range
of consonants and vowels they could generate might have been
different. But they could talk, and they had a large (perhaps huge)
vocabulary--words for places, routes, techniques, individuals, and
emotions. Extensive archaeological remains of stone tools and
living sites (and, yes, they did often live in caves) indicate that
Neandertals relied on complex technical procedures and spent most
of their lives in small family groups. The authors sift the
evidence that Neandertals had a symbolic culture--looking at their
treatment of corpses, the use of fire, and possible body
coloring--and conclude that they probably did not have a sense of
the supernatural. The book explores the brutal nature of their
lives, especially in northwestern Europe, where men and women with
spears hunted together for mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses. They
were pain tolerant, very likely taciturn, and not easy to excite.
Wynn and Coolidge offer here an eye-opening portrait of
Neandertals, painting a remarkable picture of these long-vanished
people and providing insight, as they go along, into our own minds
and culture.
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