| Editors' introductory remarks |
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| Archaeological foreword: Cognitive archaeology and the prehistory of mind |
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| Psychological foreword: Cognitive archaeology - beyond just-so stories and WEIRD psychology |
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| Acknowledgements |
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PART I Prehistory from the perspective of physiological and developmental psychology |
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1 Introduction: what would Wundt think? |
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2 Before, after, and alongside the excavation: how to think about the evolution and history of physiology and development |
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3 Life history evolution in hominins |
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36 | (22) |
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4 Evolution of hormonal mechanisms for human family relationships |
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58 | (28) |
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5 The evolution and development of morality |
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86 | (18) |
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6 In search of baselines: why psychology needs cognitive archaeology |
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104 | (16) |
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7 Play: a neglected factor in ritual, religion, and human evolution |
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120 | (15) |
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PART II Prehistory from the perspective of cognitive psychology |
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8 The origins of generativity |
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137 | (16) |
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9 Three stages in the evolution of human cognition: normativity, recursion, and abstraction |
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153 | (21) |
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10 The evolution of learning and memory in humans: comparative perspectives on testing adaptive hypotheses |
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174 | (22) |
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11 Reconfiguring Natural Semantic Metalanguage for a deep cognitive archaeology |
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196 | (24) |
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12 Exploring the psychological basis for transitions in the archaeological record |
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220 | (21) |
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13 The cognitive mechanisms deriving from the Acheulean handaxe that gave rise to symmetry, form, and pattern perception |
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241 | (20) |
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14 The role of expert technical cognition in human evolution |
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261 | (24) |
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PART III Prehistory from the perspective of social psychology |
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15 Key cognitive preconditions for the evolution of language |
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287 | (9) |
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16 The human social mind and the inextricability of science and religion |
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296 | (15) |
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17 Markers of "psycho-cultural" change: the early-Neolithic monuments of Gobekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey |
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311 | (22) |
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18 How ritual made us human |
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333 | (21) |
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19 The role of egalitarianism and gender ritual in the evolution of symbolic cognition |
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354 | (21) |
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20 Norms and their evolution |
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375 | (23) |
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21 Power, play, and interplay: the psychology of prehistoric sexuality |
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398 | (15) |
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PART IV Prehistory from the perspective of personality and clinical psychology |
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22 Domestic fire, domestic selves: how keeping fire facilitated the evolution of emotions and emotion regulation |
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415 | (16) |
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23 Psychology in archaeology: the secret society case |
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431 | (20) |
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24 The archaeology of madness |
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451 | (20) |
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25 The prehistory of psychoactive drug use |
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471 | (28) |
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26 The lure of death: suicide and human evolution |
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499 | (13) |
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27 From corpse to symbol: proposed cognitive grades over the long-term evolution of hominin mortuary activity |
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512 | (14) |
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28 Afterword: psychology and archaeology --- the past's lone reach |
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526 | (9) |
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| Index |
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