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Zusatztext A landmark volume essential for advanced scholars. Informationen zum Autor Karenleigh A. Overmann has a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Oxford, as well as a master's in psychology and bachelor's in anthropology, philosophy, and English from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS). She is a founding member of the faculty of the UCCS Center for Cognitive Archaeology, and in June 2018 she began an MSCA individual fellowship at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her primary research investigates numeracy and literacy as complex cultural systems that emerge through sustained interactions between brains, behaviors, and material forms. Her previous career was in the U.S. Navy, where she performed communications-electronics work as an enlisted Radioman before earning a commission under the Limited Duty Officer program; she retired with 25 years active service in 2003.Professor Frederick L. Coolidge has a PhD from the University of Florida and completed a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology. He is a three-timeFulbright Fellow recipient and has three teaching awards and two research awards from the University of Colorado. He was appointed Senior Visiting Scholar to Oxford University (Keble College) in 2015 and Visiting Scholar to the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar from 2014-2018. Klappentext Squeezing Minds From Stones is a collection of wide-ranging, contemporary essays on the interdisciplinary field of cognitive archaeology, which offers cognitive and psychological models to explain archaeological artifacts like stone tools, figurines, and art. Zusammenfassung Squeezing Minds From Stones is a collection of wide-ranging, contemporary essays on the interdisciplinary field of cognitive archaeology, which offers cognitive and psychological models to explain archaeological artifacts like stone tools, figurines, and art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Cognitive Archaeology at the Crossroads Karenleigh A. Overmann and Frederick L. Coolidge 1. A Simian View of the Oldowan: Reconstructing the Evolutionary Origins of Human Technology William C. McGrew, Tiago Falótico, Michael D. Gumert, and Eduardo B. Ottoni 2. Homo artifex: An Extended Evolutionary Perspective on the Origins of the Human Mind, Brain, and Culture Dietrich Stout 3. Looking at Rocks Together: Tool Production, Joint Attention, and Offline Cognition Rex Welshon 4. Evolution of Cognitive Archaeology through Evolving Cognitive Systems: A Chapter for Tom Wynn Iain Davidson 5. Sticks, Stones, and the Origins of Sapience Philip J. Barnard 6. The Origin of Cumulative Culture: Not a Single-Trait Event But Multifactorial Processes Miriam Noël Haidle 7. Hominin Evolution and Stone Tool Scavenging and Reuse in the Lower Paleolithic Adam Brumm, Matt Pope, Mathieu Leroyer, and Kate Emery 8. Flake-Making and the "Cognitive Rubicon": Insights from Stone-Knapping Experiments Mark W. Moore 9. Stone Tools and Spatial Cognition Derek Hodgson 10. Testing Models of Handedness in Stone Tools Natalie Uomini and Lana Ruck 11. Early Convergent Cultural Evolution: Acheulean Giant Core Methods of Africa Gonen Sharon 12. Cultural Transmission from the Last Common Ancestor to the Levallois Reducers: What Can We Infer? Stephen J. Lycett 13. The Handaxe Aesthetic Thomas Wynn and Tony Berlant 14. The Stories Stones Tell of Language and Its Evolution Shelby S. Putt 15. In Three Minds: Extending Cognitive Archaeology with the Social Brain Cory Stade and Clive Gamble 16. The Evolution of Social Transmission in the Acheulean Ceri Shipton 17. Knapping in the Dark: Stone Tools and a Theory of Mind James Cole 18. A Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Sexual Division of Tasks in the European Upper Paleolithic Sophie A. de Beaune 19. The Enha...
