Evolution of Cognitive Archaeology through Evolving Cognitive Systems: A Chapter for Tom Wynn

Abstract

<p>I first met Tom Wynn in 1986 at the first World Archaeological Congress in Southampton in the company of Bill McGrew. Tom and Bill were working on their ground-breaking paper comparing chimpanzee material culture with that of early hominids at Olduvai (Wynn & McGrew, 1989). The take-home from their conference paper was that apes were the best model for early hominid behavior. Their conclusion tended toward the view that chimpanzees were more human than they had been thought to be. With my usual intuitive contrariness, I suggested that this implied the early hominids were more ape-like than they had been thought to be.</p>