The article presents the course-of-experience framework and how it contributes to studying
cognition in practice. The aim is twofold:(a) to argue for a phenomenologically and …

The philosophy of Charles S. Peirce, and in particular his theory of signs (semiotic), has
seen increasing interest within archaeological theory over the past 20 years. This article …

In many scientific fields, sparseness and indirectness of empirical evidence pose
fundamental challenges to theory development. Theories of the evolution of human …

Perspectival Kinaesthetic Imaging is being proposed as a method designed to facilitate the
heightened sensitivity needed for the anthropological study of the relationship between …

We examine the question of material agency as raised in material engagement theory
(MET). Insofar as MET tends to highlight the causal roles played by extra-bodily material …

The social brain hypothesis (SBH) has played a prominent role in interpreting the
relationship between human social, cognitive and technological evolution in archaeology …

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Culture has traditionally been considered as a set of knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, norms,
and morals, acquired by a human being as a member of a group. Some anthropologists …

The ability to understand the behaviour of other people in intentional terms has been
traditionally explained by resorting to inferential mechanisms that would allow individuals to …

This chapter revises evolving theories on cognition in relation to semiotics, the
transdisciplinary study and doctrine of sign systems, and meaning-making. Cognition entails …