Table of Contents

Preface
1. Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology
2. The Expert Cognition Model in Human Evolutionary Studies
3. Towards a richer theoretical scaffolding for interpreting archaeological evidence concerning cognitive evolution
4. Material Engagement and the Embodied Mind
5. Materiality and Numerical Cognition: A Material Engagement Theory Perspective
6. Art without Symbolic Mind: Embodied Cognition and the Origins of Visual Artistic Behavior
7. Deciphering Patterns in the Archaeology of South Africa: The Neurovisual Resonance Theory
8. Accessing hominin cognition: language and social signaling in the Lower to Middle Palaeolithic
9. Bootstrapping Ordinal Thinking
10. Models, Puddings and the Puzzle
Index

About the Author

Thomas Wynn, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He has published extensively in Palaeolithic archaeology, with a particular emphasis on cognitive evolution.

Frederick L. Coolidge, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He focuses primarily on behavioral genetics, paleopsychology, and personality disorders across the lifespan.

Both editors are well-known in paleoanthropology as advocates of the enhanced working memory hypothesis for recent cognitive evolution. In 2012, they co-founded the UCCS Center for Cognitive Archaeology. They have also published numerous articles and two books together: The Rise of Homo sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking (2009) and How To Think Like a Neandertal (OUP 2012).

Reviews

"This is an area of great importance in understanding humanity, one of rapid development and one where new views of theory and practice are essential to continued progress. Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge have put together a fascinating new collection that has real substance and is both topical and thought-provoking. It will be a 'must read' for a professional audience, and can provide a useful spine for teaching cognitive evolution modules. This book
will certainly be seen as on the cutting edge of current thinking."--John Gowlett, PhD, Professor of Archaeology, University of Liverpool
"If mind is a process, we need to investigate the relationships among its parts. This book frames cognitive models into an evolutionary perspective, a necessary step to disclose those relationships. Knowledge is about questions, and this publication shows that cognitive archaeology is now looking for its own ones."--Emiliano Bruner, PhD, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (España)
"This offering from the standard bearers of cognitive archaeology will be a stimulating read, with both new ways of looking at the record and new ideas of when and where specific cognitive abilities are first manifested. I am particularly excited by the number of developments in cognition, including in expertise and Theory of Mind, that are suggested to occur within the Acheulean period."--Ceri Shipton, PhD, Fellow in East African Archaeology, British Institute
in Eastern Africa, Nairobi; McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge