文档介绍：One of the most troubling problems in archaeology is to
determine about what or in what manner did prehistoric
people think. A fundamental challenge is to develop the
theory, methodology and tools to understand human
cognition. Cognitive archaeology as a subject is still in its
infancy, and archaeologists are adopting a variety of
approaches. One direction has been to develop an 'interpret-
ationist', anti-scientific, literary approach. Another has been
to use a linguistic framework and develop a hermeneutic,
semiotic approach. A third approach develops a new
direction in prehistoric cognitive research which is rooted in
the scientific tradition and in an empirical methodology. It
draws upon the cognitive, the mathematical and the
computer sciences in an attempt to understand what tech-
niques can be used appropriately on archaeological data, and
how to implement them efficiently. This is the approach
adopted by the contributors of The ancient mind. Together,
they begin to develop a science of cognitive archaeology.
The ancient mind
NEW DIRECTIONS IN ARCHAEOLOGY
Editors
Wendy Ashmore
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Franchise Audouze
Centre de Recherches Archeologiques,
Meudon, France
Richard Bradley
Department of Archaeology, University of Reading
Joan Gero
Department of Anthropology, University of
South Carolina
Tim Murray
Department of Archaeology, La Trobe University,
Victoria, Australia
Colin Renfrew
Department of Archaeology, University of
Cambridge
Andrew Sherratt
Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford
Timothy Taylor
Department of Archaeology, University of Bradford
Norman Yoffee
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
The ancient mind
Elements of
cognitive archaeology
Edited by
COLIN RENFREW
and
EZRA B. W. ZUBROW
CAMBRIDGE
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