Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents iii
3. List of Contributors iv
4. Forward: The Archaeology of Intelligence vii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Archaeology and Cognitive Science
7. 1. The Role of Archaeology in Cognitive Science 9
8. 2. The Re-Emergence of Cognitive Archaeology 20
9. Part II: On the Ground: Interpreting Material and Non-Material Artifacts
10. 3. Memories Out of Mind: The Archaeology of the Oldest Artificial Memory Systems 33
11. 4. A Pragmatic View of the Emergence of Paleolithic Symbol-Using 50
12. 5. Nonmaterial Artifacts: Retelling the Natural History of Artifacts and Mind 63
13. Part III: Paleoneurology
14. 6. Archaeological Implications of Paleoneurology 83
15. 7. Intellectual Surplusage: The Role of Bipedalism and Neonatal Head Trauma 97
16. 8. Before or After the Split? Hominid Neural Specializations 107
17. Part IV: Information Processing in Human Evolution
18. 9. Multilevel Information Processing, Archaeology, and Evolution 121
19. 10. Behavioral Response to Variable Pleistocene Landscapes 137
20. 11. The Fossil Evidence for the Evolution of Human Intelligences in Pleistocene Homo 154
21. Part V: A Final Word: The Origins of Language
22. 12. On the Neural Bases of Spoken Language 172
23. 13. Discovering the Symbolic Potential of Communicative Signs: The Origins of Speaking a Language 187