Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Forward
Philip Tobias

Acknowledgments

Introduction
April Nowell

PART I: ARCHAEOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Chapter 1. The Role of Archaeology in Cognitive Science
Thomas Wynn

Chapter 2. The Re-Emergence of Cognitive Archaeology
April Nowell

PART II: ON THE GROUND: INTERPRETING MATERIAL AND NON-MATERIAL ARTIFACTS

Chapter 3. Memories out of Mind: The archaeology of the oldest memory systems
Francesco d’Errico

Chapter 4. A Pragmatic View of the Emergence of Paleolithic Symbol Using
Martin Byers

Chapter 5. Nonmaterial Artifacts: A Distributed Approach to Mind
Shirley Strum and Deborah Forster

PART III: PALEONEUROLOGY

Chapter 6. Archaeological Implications of Paleoneurology
Harry J. Jerison

Chapter 7. Intellectual Surplusage: The Role of Bipedalism
Sean C. Hogan and Gordon G. Gallup, Jr.

Chapter 8. Before or After the Split? Hominoid Brain Structures and the Evolution of the Human Mind
Katerina Semendeferi

PART IV: INFORMATION PROCESSING IN HUMAN EVOLUTION

Chapter 9. Multilevel Information Processing, Archaeology and Evolution
Philip Chase

Chapter 10. Behavioral Response to Variable Pleistocene Landscapes
Richard Potts

Chapter 11. The Fossil Evidence for the Evolution of Human Intelligence in Pleistocene Homo
Anne Weaver, Trenton W. Holliday, Christopher B. Ruff and Erik Trinkaus

PART V: A FINAL WORD: THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE

Chapter 12. On the Neural Bases of Spoken Language
Philip Lieberman

Chapter 13. Discovering the Symbolic Potential of Communicative Signs—The Origins of Speaking a Language.
William Noble and Iain Davidson

About the Author

edited by April Nowell

Reviews

.... a valuable collection of articles, especially for students and those new to the study of cognitive evolution. I found it both stimulating and enjoyable to read.' ' ... this is a volume with an impressive list of contributors most of whom provide succinct summaries of longer and more detailed studies they have previously published as books or as journal articles. It is useful to have these gathered together in a volume that integrates studies of the fossil and archaeological records very effectively.'--Steven Mithen"Cambridge Archaeological Journal" (12/01/2002)