" This book represents an integrative theory of cognitive development in infancy and early
childhood, emphasizing the important role that language plays in taking the 2-to 5-year-old …

This is the first book-length study to explore the relationship between archaeology and
modern thought, showing how philosophical ideas that developed in the seventeenth to …

This volume explores abductive cognition, an important but, at least until the third quarter of
the last century, neglected topic in cognition. The book aims at increasing knowledge about …

Archaeology's main contribution to the debate over the origins of modern humans has been
investigating where and when modern human behavior is first recognized in the …

This interdisciplinary book examines archaeology's engagement with semiotics, from its
early structuralist beginnings to its more recent Peircian encounters. It represents the first …

The Middle East of the late 1970s saw the beginnings of developments, which, on the
surface, indicated the growing appeal of religion among people in the region. In Egypt, to …

Storage of symbolic information outside the human brain is accepted here as the first
undisputed evidence for cultural modernity. In the hunter-gatherer context of the Stone Age …

This chapter offers an overview of the cognitive principles of art, the origins of art, and the
cognitive function of art. Art is an activity that arises in the context of human cultural and …

Languages are socially constructed systems of expression, generated interactively in social
networks, which can be assimilated by the individual brain as it develops. Languages …

According to the hypotheses of distributed and extended cognition, remembering does not
always occur entirely inside the brain but is often distributed across heterogeneous systems …