Knapping in the Dark: Stone Tools and a Theory of Mind | Squeezing Minds From Stones: Cognitive Archaeology and the Evolution of the Human Mind (2024)

Squeezing Minds From Stones: Cognitive Archaeology and the Evolution of the Human Mind

Karenleigh A. Overmann (ed.), Frederick L. Coolidge (ed.)

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2019

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9780190854645

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9780190854614

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Cole, James, 'Knapping in the Dark: Stone Tools and a Theory of Mind', in Karenleigh A. Overmann, and Frederick L. Coolidge (eds), Squeezing Minds From Stones: Cognitive Archaeology and the Evolution of the Human Mind (New York, 2019; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 May 2019), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190854614.003.0018, accessed 13 Aug. 2024.

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Abstract

Understanding the cognitive abilities of ancestral hominins remains challenging, despite the many advances of recent years, including new fossil discoveries and paleogenetic data. However, the primary route to accessing the behavioral and cognitive worlds of our hominin ancestors still remains firmly rooted in the archaeological record, particularly stone tools, the direct products of hominin actions grounded in the physical, social, and cognitive worlds occupied by the knappers. A theory of mind (ToM) has long been considered a key component of the human condition, linked to both language and the development of abstract thought. There must therefore be a point (or perhaps multiple points) in our evolutionary history when hominins gained a ToM. This ability should, in turn, be reflected in the archaeological record. To date, however, only limited attempts have been made to correlate the two. This chapter thus explores the relationship between the various stone tool traditions and ToM.

Keywords: theory of mind, lithic technologies, cognitive evolution, social brain hypothesis, orders of intentionality, identity model

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James Cole, Knapping in the Dark: Stone Tools and a Theory of Mind. In: Squeezing Minds From Stones: Cognitive Archaeology and the Evolution of the Human Mind. Edited by Karenleigh A. Overmann and Frederick L. Coolidge, Oxford University Press (2019). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190854614.003.0018

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