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The Sapient Mind Archaeology Meets Neuroscience

Edited By: Colin Renfrew, Chris Frith and Lambros Malafouris
224 pages, 10 line figures, 3 black & white photos, 1 colour photo
The Sapient Mind
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  • The Sapient Mind ISBN: 9780199561995 Hardback Feb 2009 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
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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.

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Introduction - The sapient mind: archaeology meets neuroscience; 1. Neural correlates of Early Stone Age tookmaking: technology, language and cognition in human evolution; 2. Tool use, communicative gesture and cerebral asymmetries in the modern human brain; 3. Biology is only part of the story ..; 4. Big brains, small worlds: material culture and the evolution of the mind; 5. Wild agency: nested intentionalities in cognitive neuroscience and archaeology; 6. Between brains, bodies and things: tectonoetic awareness and the extended self; 7. Social ontologies; 8. The role of cultural practices in the emergence of modern human intelligence; 9. Evolving intentions for social interaction: from entrainment to joint action; 10. Social cognition; 11. Neuroscience, evolution and the sapient paradox: the factuality of value and of the sacred; 12. Things to think with: words and objects as material symbols; 13. Why religion is nothing special but is central

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Edited By: Colin Renfrew, Chris Frith and Lambros Malafouris
224 pages, 10 line figures, 3 black & white photos, 1 colour photo
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