Cognitive Archaeology and Human volution Edie by SOPHIE. A. DE BEAUNE Jean Moulin Uivenity- Lyon 3 and CNRS FREDERICK 1. COOLIDGE Unie of Gold, Cala Springs THOMAS WENN Univesity of Colorado, Colorado Springs B CAMBRIDGEnse Kya Kyran and Brugger wed the Woud Halo est Anmstong& MeConaghy tyr) and the Remote Asoistes Testo measre both divergent and os ‘etgent hiking in the same participants In dhe Word Halo Test subjects se given a tuget word and five nearsynonyns. They ae asked to mark thse words that they perceive as being equal or alos qa in meaning tothe Lage lke this "get huge, worldwide, afte, peu, ntoe™ Any choice fom er oall ve iter pombe, Kyriacou and Bigger ako ‘wed the Magieal Meation Questionnaire to measure the degree of schizo ‘yp thinking and revealed a double dseciation: Perso with a sceptical lite toward paanomnal phenomena accepted fewer snonyms inthe ‘Wo Halo Testhan the believers Inthe Remote Asoc: Test however, the sceptics onperermed the oer group. “Te elt sgget that he link between pachoss and creat) not 48 stughtlorwun as it has smietines been propor. The dsecation sho explains the Janasan fice of magical testo: On the one hand, pronounced divergent thinking llows one “se” connections between Teonly sociated coneepts; onthe ater hand, por convergent thinking may prevent the integration of vel ides int an cabled body of [Enowledge andthusfostrdonynratic delusion ike belie In some cass then, 3 the American seience ition writer Thomas M. Dc miggested, reat eal“ byt see relationships where ane exist” (Sez deo p38) Neverteles tendency lo oerntexpet connections may well have been an adaptive strategy a the create adrantage may outweigh the ‘ot ig pret misinterpreting the environment Aligning neuropsychology and palaconearology Functional hemilierc specialization must have been key feature of ‘human speciation The hemispheres of the Homo sapiens brain als ier matomieally Is pasnonings sugges that analorial and factional “Symmetries are cally Hnked. Traces of esling hemisphercty have indeed heen nnd inthe Foal record (Holloway 3993). Futhermove, palaconeology is fering mote general mols of cerebral evolution in humans (Weare 22) Snulay avait offamevorksattemptt explin Taman cognitive development Unfotanately thr ited aggeerent with end to the ode and time seal of eagnitive developments onthe te hard andthe evoktionay driving forces on he eter hand. Pusher inst wl ely come fm lose cooperation ofthe Bel CHAPTER 4. ‘The archaeology of consciousness Matt}. Roseano ‘The compelling at ates, ad grave goods of Upper Pabcolihic heminins Teave litle doubt tat Ucir conscious experience wa sich tnd Gl as ur own. Inference aboot the conscions experince of ear Tomine far mote speculative. Fully han conscionsnes, however, {kd not arve ex nia the ons ofthe Upp Paaclithie pid, ln this chapter 1 pursue the evdving conscioumes of Lower and Middle Palucliii hominins by follwing two lines ofevence in the archaco Toga eco () sil development in toolmaking that equited eonscious Mithen, the modern mind emerge as grater inteation {ook place arong (ormery isolated forms of intelligence. This review ‘Spgs conte hay have been a nortan mechanism in achiew inthis integration, Ath conscious demands ofeach ofthese inkeligences even interaction wh othe forse intelligence was fasted. Pally human conciouses did not mateiaze sudden, fll formed, wath the socalled syubolc explosion of the Upper Plaeoliic Fridence hom the Milde Paleolithic and ealer provides a sketchy Tot salable rehtry of human conciownes. Human conscicusness ‘ood songs numberof separate bt intertlae pathways ~ cach com tribnting distin, if somewhat eveapping, aspects to the ull peru tf ot abjetveevaneness The two liner dcssed here ae not he ull ‘The archaeology of consciousness story For eample, thet is increasing evidence that cooperative hunting “nog hominins may nathave ben posible without deep undentndig af another's mind (a theory of ing, se Mithen 1996, 168; Stiner 2006) (Other important pathvays wait o be sented and inteyated into the ‘emerging pctre of the mids past *