Table of Contents

Foreword I Cognitive Archaeology and the Prehistory of Mind Trevor Watkins 

Foreword II Cognitive Archaeology – Beyond Just-So stories and WEIRD Psychology

Valerie E. Stone 

Part One: Prehistory from the Perspective of Physiological and Developmental

Psychology

1. Introduction: What would Wundt think? Edward P. Kardas & Tracy B. Henley 

2. Before, After, and Alongside the Excavation: How to Think About the Evolution and
History of Physiology and Development Melvin Konner 

3. Life History Evolution in Hominins Jon Oxford & David C. Geary 

4. Evolution of Hormonal Mechanisms for Human Family Relationships　Heather Habecker

& Mark V. Flinn 

5. The Evolution and Development of Morality Dennis L. Krebs 

6. In Search of Baselines: Why Psychology Needs Cognitive Archaeology Darcia　

Narvaez 

7. Play: A Neglected Factor in Ritual, Religion, and Human Evolution　Gordon M.

Burghardt 

Part Two: Prehistory from the Perspective of Cognitive Psychology 

8. The Origins of Generativity Michael C. Corballis

9. Three stages in the Evolution of the Human Cognition: Normativity, Recursion, and
Abstraction Ceri Shipton 

10. The Evolution of Learning and Memory in Humans: Comparative Perspectives on

Testing Adaptive Hypotheses Mark A. Krause & Crickette Sanz 

11. Reconfiguring Natural Semantic Metalanguage for a Deep Cognitive

Archaeology Horacio Fabrega, Jr. 

12. Exploring the Psychological Basis for Transitions in the Archaeological Record Liane
Gabora & Cameron M. Smith 

13. The Cognitive Mechanisms Deriving from the Acheulean Handaxe that give rise to
Symmetry, Form, and Pattern Perception Derek Hodgson 
14. The Role of Expert Technical Cognition in Human Evolution　Thomas Wynn &
Frederick L. Coolidge 

Part Three: Prehistory from the Perspective of Social Psychology 

15. Key Cognitive Preconditions for the Evolution of Language Merlin Donald 

16. The Human Social Mind and the Inextricability of Science and Religion Mark Nielsen 

17.　Markers of ‘Psycho-Cultural’ Change: The early Neolithic Monuments of Göbekli Tepe

in southeastern Turkey Oliver Dietrich, Jens　Notroff,　Sebastian Walter, & Laura Dietrich 

18. How Ritual Made us Human Matt J. Rossano 

19. The Role of Egalitarianism and Gender Ritual in the Evolution of Symbolic Cognition　
Camilla Power 

20. Norms and Their Evolution Kim Sterelny 

21. Power, Play, and Interplay: The Psychology of Prehistoric Sexuality Timothy Taylor 

Part Four: Prehistory from the Perspective of Personality and Clinical Psychology 

22. Domestic Fire, Domestic Selves: How Keeping Fire Facilitated the Evolution of
Emotions and Emotion Regulation Terrence Twomey

23. Psychology in Archaeology: The Secret Society Case Brian Hayden

24. The Archaeology of Madness David S. Whitley

25. The Prehistory of Psychoactive Substance Use Edward H. Hagen & Shannon

Tushingham

26. The Lure of Death: Suicide and Human Evolution Nicholas Humphrey

27. From Corpse to Symbol: Proposed Cognitive Grades over the Long-term Evolution of
Hominin Mortuary Activity　Paul Pettitt

28. Afterword: Psychology and Archaeology – The Past’s Long Reach Matt J. Rossano,
Tracy B. Henley, & Edward P. Kardas

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