The Colonization of Australia and Its Adjacent Islands and the Evolution of Modern Cognition

Title
The Colonization of Australia and Its Adjacent Islands and the Evolution of Modern Cognition
Publication Date
2010
Author(s)
Davidson, Iain
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-9704
Email: idavidso@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:idavidso
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1086/650694
UNE publication id
une:7291
Abstract
The first colonization of the Greater Australian continent, known as Sahul, indicated that humans had modern cognitive ability. Such modern human abilities probably emerged earlier in Africa. I will argue that the only way we can identify what constitutes modern human behavior is to look at the record in Australia - the first place colonized only by modern humans. I place this argument within recent theorizing about cognitive evolution.
Link
link
Citation
Current Anthropology, 51(Supplement 1), p. S177-S189
ISSN
1537-5382
0011-3204
Start page
S177
End page
S189

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