Contents......Page 3
Why religion is nothing special but is central......Page 1
References......Page 7
Introduction......Page 8
Experimental tasks......Page 10
PET results......Page 11
Expert Oldowan toolmaking......Page 13
Late Acheulean toolmaking......Page 15
We gratefully thank Colin Renfrew, Chris Frith and Lambros Malfouris for organizing the Sapient Mind conference, and all the participants for their lively and helpful discussion. We are particularly grateful to Scott Frey for his comments on a draft of.........Page 16
References......Page 17
Introduction......Page 19
The praxis representation network......Page 20
Tool use and communicative gestures......Page 21
Summary......Page 22
References......Page 23
Part one: from primates to modern humans......Page 26
Indirect evidence......Page 27
Time sequence for categories of artefacts......Page 28
Implications of change in STWM......Page 30
Part two: modern humans......Page 31
The Neolithic (ca 10000-7000yr BP)......Page 32
Conclusion......Page 33
References......Page 34
What needs to change in the study of human evolution......Page 36
What needs addressing in human evolution......Page 37
A timetable to hominin evolution......Page 38
Encephalization, childhood and cultural and social transmission......Page 39
Imaginative geographies, global diasporas and distributed networks......Page 40
Agriculture, sedentism and small worlds......Page 41
References......Page 43
Introduction......Page 47
What is a wild system?......Page 48
Wild agents as hierarchies of self-sustaining work......Page 49
Extending wild agency......Page 50
Extending wild agency from proximal to virtual sustainment......Page 51
Virtual scale-up requires the sustainment of developmental contexts......Page 52
References......Page 55
Introduction: beyond this ‘I’ that I know......Page 58
The self in Homer......Page 59
A gold signet ring......Page 60
The extended self: from embodiment to the act of embodying......Page 62
Tectonoetic awareness: between brains, bodies and things......Page 63
Final discussion......Page 64
References......Page 65
Introduction......Page 68
Modes of achieving an ontology......Page 69
Iron Age ontologies......Page 70
Plastic ontologies......Page 74
References......Page 75
Seeking the sources of modern human cognition: culture and brain......Page 77
Two systems of preliterate cultural practices......Page 78
Enacting high-level cognition in the cultural practices environmentally coupled gesture: science and technology......Page 79
Conditional discrimination task......Page 80
A reinterpretation of chimpanzee match-to-sample behaviour......Page 81
The costs of ignoring cultural practices......Page 83
Endnotes......Page 84
References......Page 85
The role of intention in previous thinking......Page 86
Scenario 1: social couplings between ‘socially blind’ individuals......Page 87
Scenario 2: relating to others through action simulation......Page 88
Scenario 3: sharing perceptions with others......Page 89
Linking the scenarios......Page 90
Beyond immediate social interaction: culture......Page 92
References......Page 93
Mirror systems and social stimuli......Page 97
Finding locations of interest......Page 98
Beyond stimulus-response psychology: goals and actions......Page 99
Learning by observation and learning by instruction......Page 100
What do we learn about the world from instructions?......Page 101
References......Page 102
Introduction......Page 104
The tectonic phase......Page 105
Part II. Factual realities of the tectonic phase: value and belief......Page 106
Intrinsic value......Page 107
The power of the sacred......Page 108
References......Page 109
Neuroscience and archaeology: an anthropological perspective......Page 111
Material symbols......Page 112
Words and sentences in the brain......Page 113
Puzzling objects......Page 114
References......Page 115
Introduction......Page 117
The transactional and the transcendental......Page 118
The transcendental social and religion......Page 119
Historical excursions......Page 120
References......Page 122

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Introduction. The sapient mind: archaeology meets neuroscience

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

Biological sciences. Series B

compiled and edited by Colin Renfrew, Chris Frith, and Lambros Malafouris

Royal Society Pub. ; Distributed in the USA by DSW

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Cover title.
"12 June 2008."
Based on a meeting that took place September 14-16, 2007, at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge.
Includes bibliographical references.

2011-06-04