The foundations of cognitive archaeology

The foundations of cognitive archaeology / Marc A. Abramiuk.

In The Foundations of Cognitive Archaeology, Marc Abramiuk proposes a multidisciplinary basis for the study of the mind in the past, arguing that archaeology and the cognitive sciences have much to offer one another. Abramiuk draws on relevant topics from philosophy, biological anthropology, cogniti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abramiuk, Marc A., 1973- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : MIT Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Archaeology.
Cognition and culture.
Mind and body.
archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Archaeology
Cognition and culture
Mind and body
Arkeologi.
Kognition.
Kultur.
Kropp och själ.
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Table of Contents:
  • Toward a study of the mind in the past in relation to developments in archaeological theory
  • Archaeological perspectives on the mind and associated approaches for studying the mind in the past
  • Concepts and their reconstruction in cognitive archaeology
  • Percepts and their reconstruction in cognitive archaeology
  • Reasoning and its role in the reconstruction of conceptual products and thought processes in cognitive archaeology
  • An introduction to the evolution of the mind
  • An introduction to the emergence of the modern human mind
  • A vision for an ongoing discipline.

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