The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology

Thomas Wynn is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, where he has taught since 1977. He earned his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana. His training was in the archaeology of the Lower Palaeolithic (early Stone Age). His doctoral research opened a hitherto unexplored direction in Palaeolithic studies - the explicit use of psychological theory to interpret archaeological remains. He has published extensively in Palaeolithic studies (150+ articles and book chapters), with a particular emphasis on cognitive evolution. Karenleigh A. Overmann earned her doctorate in archaeology from the University of Oxford as a Clarendon scholar in 2016. In June 2020, she completed two years of postdoctoral research at the University of Bergen (MSCA individual fellowship, EU project 785793), and she was a visiting scholar at the University of Pittsburgh from Sept. 2020 to June 2021. She is currently an associate professor of anthropology (adjunct) and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Archaeology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Frederick L. Coolidge has a BA, MA, and PhD in Psychology from the University of Florida (UF) and completed a 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at UF. He worked as Forensic Psychologist at the South Florida State Mental Hospital before beginning his academic career at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS). He has received three Fulbright Fellowships to India (1987, 1992, 2005) and in 2015 was appointed Senior Visiting Scholar at Oxford University (Keble College). He received the annual UCCS research award, three UCCS teaching awards and awarded the title University of Colorado Presidential Teaching Scholar.

1: The archaeology of mind-Past, present, and future
2: Ideas of cognitive evolution in the making
3: Rock art and cognitive archaeology: A personal Southern African journey
4: Redescribing the Oldowan
5: Insights into the cognitive abilities of Oldowan and Acheulean hominins: Experimental approaches
6: The expert Neandertal mind and brain, revisited
7: What is cognitive archaeology? The material engagement approach
8: From technical reasoning to cumulative technological culture
9: Evolutionary neuroarchaeology
10: More than the sum of their parts? Networks as methods and as heuristics in cognitive archaeology
11: Towards an ecology of evolving skills
12: The evolution of human causal cognition
13: On the problem of the interpretation of symbols and symbolism in archaeology
14: Investigating cognitive abilities of early humans: The Windows Approach
15: Thinking, for example in and about the past: Approaches to ideational cognitive archaeology
16: Methods in neuroarchaeology
17: Experimental archaeology enables inferences about human cognition
18: Prehistoric numeracy: Approaches, assumptions, and issues
19: Systematically reconstructing behavioral architectures as a basis for cognitive archaeology
20: Tool use by New Caledonian crows can inform cognitive archaeology: A case study using Observational Action Coding
21: A Pleistocene record of making symbols
22: The cultural ecology of fear: Human funerary cognition in evolutionary perspective
23: Current conceptions of human cognition in understanding the origins of human art
24: The relevance of geometry to understanding human evolution from the perspective of cognitive domains and the Neurovisual Resonance Theory
25: The deep history of musicality: Evolutionary cognitive archaeology and music
26: The neuro-archaeology of language origins
27: Where are the children? Archaeological evidence of children in the hunter-gatherer societies of the Upper European Paleolithic