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The Rise of Homo Sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking

by Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn

This study of human evolution functions as an introduction to the ways in which advances in cognitive science can be profitably used by archaeologists. The authors argue that a biological change in cognition may have been responsible for the capacity for cultural behaviour which we associate with modern humans (and which Neanderthals did not develop) such as ritual, art, and organisation of labour. 308p b/w figs (Wiley-Blackwell 2009)

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