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dc.contributor.authorDavidson, Iainen
dc.date.accessioned2011-04-14T09:05:00Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.citationWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1(2), p. 214-229en
dc.identifier.issn1939-5086en
dc.identifier.issn1939-5078en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/7124-
dc.description.abstractThis discussion of archeology of cognition is concerned primarily with the evolutionary emergence of the cognition particular to modern humans but there is an implication for the evolution of cognition among modern humans. Archaeological evidence can provide important insights into the evolutionary emergence of human cognition, but theoretical considerations are fundamental in understanding what sorts of cognition there might have been between the ape-like common ancestor and modern humans. Archeology is the only source of evidence for the behavior associated with such theoretical stages. Cognitive archeology, therefore, involves an iterative interaction between theory from outside archeology and more or less direct evidence from the past. This review considers the range of possible evidence from archeology and genetics and summarizes some of the results of analysis of nonhuman primates particularly to assess characteristics of the last common ancestor (LCA) of apes and humans. The history of changes in size and shape of the brain since separation from other apes introduces the need to assess the appropriate cognitive theories to interpret such evidence. The review concentrates on two such approaches: Baddeley's working memory model as interpreted by Coolidge and Wynn, and Barnard’s interacting cognitive subsystems as it has been elaborated to define the cognitive conditions for hominins between the LCA and modern people. Most of the rest of the review considers how the evidence from stone tools might be consistent with such theoretical models of cognition. This evidence is consistent with views that modern human behavior only emerged in the last 100,000 years (or so) but it gives an explanation for that in terms of cognition.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons Ltden
dc.relation.ispartofWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Scienceen
dc.titleThe archaeology of cognitive evolutionen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/wcs.40en
dc.subject.keywordsArchaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levanten
dc.subject.keywordsArchaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americasen
dc.subject.keywordsArchaeology of Australia (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)en
dc.subject.keywordsAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeologyen
dc.subject.keywordsArchaeological Scienceen
local.contributor.firstnameIainen
local.subject.for2008210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levanten
local.subject.for2008210102 Archaeological Scienceen
local.subject.for2008210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americasen
local.subject.for2008210104 Archaeology of Australia (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)en
local.subject.for2008210101 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeologyen
local.subject.seo2008950503 Understanding Australias Pasten
local.subject.seo2008950501 Understanding Africas Pasten
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local.profile.emailidavidso@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20101210-112443en
local.publisher.placeUnited Kingdomen
local.format.startpage214en
local.format.endpage229en
local.identifier.scopusid77957701695en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume1en
local.identifier.issue2en
local.contributor.lastnameDavidsonen
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dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleThe archaeology of cognitive evolutionen
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorDavidson, Iainen
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local.identifier.wosid000298171700008en
local.year.published2010en
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