Handbook of cognitive archaeology : psychology in prehistory
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Handbook of cognitive archaeology : psychology in prehistory
Routledge, 2020
- pbk.
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The remains that archaeologists uncover reveal ancient minds at work as much as ancient hands, and for decades many have sought a better way of understanding those minds. This understanding is at the forefront of cognitive archaeology, a discipline that believes that a greater application of psychological theory to archaeology will further our understanding of the evolution of the human mind.
Bringing together a diverse range of experts including archaeologists, psychologists, anthropologists, biologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, historians, and philosophers, in one comprehensive volume, this accessible and illuminating book is an important resource for students and researchers exploring how the application of cognitive archaeology can significantly and meaningfully deepen their knowledge of early and ancient humans. This seminal volume opens the field of cognitive archaeology to scholars across the behavioral sciences.
Table of Contents
Foreword I Trevor Watkins Foreword II Valerie E. Stone Part One 1. Introduction: What would Wundt think? Edward P. Kardas & Tracy B. Henley 2. Before, After, and Alongside the Excavation: How to Think About the Evolution and History of Physiology and Development Melvin Konner 3. Life History Evolution in Hominins Jon Oxford & David C. Geary 4. Evolution of Hormonal Mechanisms for Human Family Relationships Heather Habecker & Mark V. Flinn 5. The Evolution and Development of Morality Dennis L. Krebs 6. In Search of Baselines: Why Psychology Needs Cognitive Archaeology Darcia Narvaez 7. Play: A Neglected Factor in Ritual, Religion, and Human Evolution Gordon M. Burghardt Part Two 8. The Origins of Generativity Michael C. Corballis 9. Three stages in the Evolution of the Human Cognition: Normativity, Recursion, and Abstraction Ceri Shipton 10. The Evolution of Learning and Memory in Humans: Comparative Perspectives on Testing Adaptive Hypotheses Mark A. Krause & Crickette Sanz 11. Reconfiguring Natural Semantic Metalanguage for a Deep Cognitive Archaeology Horacio Fabrega, Jr. 12. Exploring the Psychological Basis for Transitions in the Archaeological Record Liane Gabora & Cameron M. Smith 13. The Cognitive Mechanisms Deriving from the Acheulean Handaxe that give rise to Symmetry, Form, and Pattern Perception Derek Hodgson 14. The Role of Expert Technical Cognition in Human Evolution Thomas Wynn & Frederick L. Coolidge Part Three 15. Key Cognitive Preconditions for the Evolution of Language Merlin Donald 16. The Human Social Mind and the Inextricability of Science and Religion Mark Nielsen 17. Markers of 'Psycho-Cultural' Change: The early Neolithic Monuments of Goebekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey Oliver Dietrich, Jens Notroff, Sebastian Walter, & Laura Dietrich 18. How Ritual Made us Human Matt J. Rossano 19. The Role of Egalitarianism and Gender Ritual in the Evolution of Symbolic Cognition Camilla Power 20. Norms and Their Evolution Kim Sterelny 21. Power, Play, and Interplay: The Psychology of Prehistoric Sexuality Timothy Taylor Part Four 22. Domestic Fire, Domestic Selves: How Keeping Fire Facilitated the Evolution of Emotions and Emotion Regulation Terrence Twomey 23. Psychology in Archaeology: The Secret Society Case Brian Hayden 24. The Archaeology of Madness David S. Whitley 25. The Prehistory of Psychoactive Substance Use Edward H. Hagen & Shannon Tushingham 26. The Lure of Death: Suicide and Human Evolution Nicholas Humphrey 27. From Corpse to Symbol: Proposed Cognitive Grades over the Long-term Evolution of Hominin Mortuary Activity Paul Pettitt 28. Afterword: Psychology and Archaeology - The Past's Long Reach Matt J. Rossano, Tracy B. Henley, & Edward P. Kardas
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