Modelling the Early Human Mind. This item is unavailable.Modelling the Early Human Mind

A volume of papers from a conference held by the McDonald Institute in Cambridge, 1993. The aim of the conference was to address key issues in the development of intelligence and cognitive capacities though the course of human evolution. It did this by invoking theoretical perspectives from a broad range of relevant disciplines - psychology, ethology and primate behaviour, neurology, child development, artificial intelligence and, of course, archaeology. The volume contains the papers presented at the conference, revised and updated in the light of post-conference discussions. It provides the most comprehensive review available of current approaches to 'modelling' the evolution of intelligence and congnition in early human popoulations. Seventeen papers by Colin Renfrew, Richard W. Byrne, Robert A. Foley, Steven Mithen, J. A. J. Gowlett, Frederic Joulian, James Russell, Christopher Longuet-Higgins, David Erdal, Andrew Whiten, P. C. Lee, Peter G. Grossenbacher, K. A. Robson Brown, Leslie C. Aiello, Elizabeth Whitcombe, Angela C. Roberts, Peter Collins and Trevor W. Robbins.

Although it is a collection of 17 conference papers (not usually a good advertisement), the volume has first-rate contributors from the relevant disciplines, touches on the important issues, and has a useful introduction for those coming to this controversial subject for the first time. -- New Scientist, 1996

This is an ambitious and exciting contribution to the study of development of pre-modern cognitive abilities. Although not for the faint of heart, the volume presents information on cognition from such a range of perspectives that, unless uncannily well versed in her studies, any student of cognitive development will benefit from its reading. -- American Antiquity, 1996