Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution

This book uses evidence from empirical studies to understand conditions that led to the development of cognitive processes during evolution.

Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution presented 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. Using evidence from empirical studies and offering theoretical speculations about the evolution of modern thinking.Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution presented 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 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.