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The Sapient Mind
Archaeology meets neuroscience
Edited by Colin Renfrew, Chris Frith, and Lambros Malafouris
224 pages
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10 line figures; 3 black & white photos, 1 colour photo
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234x156mm
978-0-19-956199-5
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Hardback
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12 February 2009
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- Integrates for the first time research from neuroscience and archaeology, presenting a more detailed picture of how and why humans developed as they did
- Initiates a dialogue between two disciplines that have remained isolated up to now
- Edited and written by researchers at the forefront of these disciplines
The turn of the twenty-first century has seen a new era in the cognitive and brain sciences that allows us to address the age-old question of what it means to be human from a whole new range of different perspectives. Our knowledge of the workings of the human brain increases day by day and so does our understanding of the extended, distributed, embodied and culturally mediated character of the human mind. The problem is that these major ways of thinking about human cognition and the threads of evidence that they carry with them often seem to diverge, rather than confront one another.
'The Sapient Mind' channels the huge
emerging analytic potential of current neuroscientific research in the direction of a common integrated programme targeting the big picture of human cognitive evolution. Up to now, working in isolation, both archaeology and neuroscience have made a number of important contributions to the study of human intelligence. Archaeology, for instance has given us a good idea about where, and an approximate idea about when, Homo sapiens appeared - in Africa somewhere between 100 000 and 200 000 years ago. Neuroscience, on the other hand, has given us a good indication about where in the human brain modern human capacities (e.g. language, symbolic capacity, representational ability, theory of mind (ToM), causal belief, intentionality, sense of selfhood) can be identified and the possible neural
networks and cognitive mechanisms that support them. The challenge facing us then is how do we put all these different facets and threads of evidence about the human condition back together again?
This book presents the work of leading researchers from archaeology and the brain sciences, showing how a new framework that integrates two hithero isolated disciplines can provide us with a much deeper, more informative, account of where we came from, and why we developed as we did.Readership: Students researchers in evolutionary and cognitive psychology and archaeology
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Edited by Colin Renfrew, Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Chris Frith, Welcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, and Lambros Malafouris, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge Contributors:
Maurice Bloch, Dept of Anthropology, London School of Economics, London, UK
Thierry Chaminade, Functional Imaging Lab, Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK
Fiona Coward, Dept of Geography, University of London Royal Holloway, Egham, UK
Scott H Frey, Lewis Center for
Neuroimaging, University of Oregon, Eugene OR. USA
Chris D Frith, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, UK
Clive Gamble, Dept of Geography, University of London Royal Holloway, Egham, UK
Chris Gosden, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK
Edwin Hutchins, Dept of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA, USA
J Scott Jordan, Dept of Psychology, Illinois State University, Normal IL, USA
Günther Knoblich, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
Lambros Malafouris, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK
Dwight Read, Dept of Anthropology, UCLA, Los Angeles CA, USA
Colin Renfrew, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK
Andreas Roepstorff, Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Kathy Schick, Stone Age Institute, Gosport IN, USA
Natalie Sebanz, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
Dietrich Stout, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK
Nicholas Toth, Stone Age Institute, Gosport IN, USA
Sander van der Leeuw, School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, USA
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Colin Renfrew, Chris D Frith, Lambros Malafouris: Introduction - The sapient mind: archaeology meets neuroscience
1: Dietrich Stout, Nicholas Toth, Kathy Schick & Thierry Chaminade: Neural correlates of Early Stone Age tookmaking: technology, language and cognition in human evolution
2: Scott H Frey: Tool use, communicative gesture and cerebral asymmetries in the modern human brain
3: Dwight Read & Sander van der Leeuw: Biology is only part of the story ...
4: Fiona Coward & Clive Gamble: Big brains, small worlds: material culture and the evolution of the mind
5: J Scott Jordan: Wild agency: nested intentionalities in cognitive neuroscience and archaeology
6: Lambros Malafouris: Between brains, bodies and things: tectonoetic awareness and the extended self
7: Chris Gosden: Social ontologies
8: Edwin Hutchins: The role of cultural practices in the emergence of modern human intelligence
9: Günther Knoblich & Natalie Sebanz: Evolving intentions for social interaction: from entrainment to joint action
10: Chris D Frith: Social cognition
11: Colin Renfrew: Neuroscience, evolution and the sapient paradox: the factuality of value and of the sacred
12: Andreas Roepstorff: Things to think with: words and objects as material symbols
13: Maurice Bloch: Why religion is nothing special but is central
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