1st Edition
Psychology and Cognitive Archaeology An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of the Human Mind
Foreword: Minding Matter
Lambros Malafouris
Acknowledgements
Contributors
1. Introduction: The Utility of Prehistory for Psychology
Matt J. Rossano and Tracy B. Henley
2. Situating the Archaeology in Cognitive Archaeology
Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge
3. Psychology and Evolution: A Checkered History
Michael C. Corballis
4. Wild Selves: On the Deeply Historical, Contextual Emergence of Self-Sustaining Systems
J. Scott Jordan
5. The Missing Mind: Contrasting Civilization with Non-Civilization Development and Functioning
Darcia Narvaez and Mary S. Tarsha
6. The Laughing Pregnant Grandmother and the Relevance of Archaeological Findings for Cultural Psychology
Jaan Valsiner
7. Sexuality and Gender in Prehistory
Maryanne L. Fisher, Rebecca Burch, Rosemarie Sokol-Chang, T. Joel Wade and David Widman
8. Cognition Demonstrated by Artifacts: Tool-use Expertise and Tool-use Learning
Blandine Bril
9. Evidence, Inference, and the Puzzle of Ancestral Warfare
Anthony C. Lopez
10. The Advent of Religion
Lee A. Kirkpatrick and Matt J. Rossano
11. A Prehistory of Sleep: Understanding the Roots of Modern Sleep Disorders
Valerie E. Stone
12. Psychology and Antiquity: A Prehistorian’s Perspective
Paul Pettitt
Afterword: On Intersecting Psychology and Cognitive Archaeology
Tracy B. Henley and Matt J. Rossano
Biography
Tracy B. Henley is Professor at Texas A & M University–Commerce, USA. He works primarily on historical matters, social cognition, and psycholinguistics. He has several previous books related to the history of psychology as well as serving as an editor for the Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology.
Matt J. Rossano is Professor of Psychology at Southeastern Louisiana University, USA, where he studies the evolution of ritual, religion, and cooperation. His past books include Ritual in Human Evolution and Religion, Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology, Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved, and Mortal Rituals.
"True interdiscplinarity is difficult to come by, because it’s so difficult to do. Here, Henley and Rossano are to be congratulated for putting together a genuinely interdiscplinary, and genuinely thought-provoking, exploration of how archaeology and prehistory can contribute to an understanding of human psychology through time and space."
Louise Barrett, Professor of Psychology at University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
"The archaeological record provides unique insights into the history of human organizations and innovations and their spread around the world. These artifacts tell us something important about the social and cognitive demands of living in different historical epochs and provide unique insights into the psychology of modern humans. Henley and Rossano’s book provides a superb introduction to this interdisciplinary approach and will be of interest to psychologists, cognitive scientists, anthropologists, and archaeologists."
David C. Geary, Curators’ Distinguished Professor at University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
"A book that puts the colour back into prehistory."
Nicholas Humphrey, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at London School of Economics, London, UK
