OUP UNCORRECTED PROOF – REVISES, Mon Jan 28 2019, NEWGEN Overmann170818MEDUS_MSC.indd 2 28-Jan-19 8:33:22 AM 1 Squeezing Minds From Stones Cognitive Archaeology and the Evolution of the Human Mind Edited by Karenleigh A. Overmann and Frederick L. Coolidge OUP UNCORRECTED PROOF – REVISES, Mon Jan 28 2019, NEWGEN Overmann170818MEDUS_MSC.indd 3 28-Jan-19 8:33:22 AM 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2019 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. CIP data is on file at the Library of Congress ISBN 978– 0– 19– 085461– 4 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America OUP UNCORRECTED PROOF – REVISES, Mon Jan 28 2019, NEWGEN Overmann170818MEDUS_MSC.indd 4 28-Jan-19 8:33:22 AM C O N T E N TS Contributors vii Introduction: Cognitive Archaeology at the Crossroads 1 Karenleigh A. Overmann and Frederick L. Coolidge 1. A Simian View of the Oldowan: Reconstructing the Evolutionary Origins of Human Technology 13 William C. McGrew, Tiago Falótico, Michael D. Gumert, and Eduardo B. Ottoni 2. Homo artifex: An Extended Evolutionary Perspective on the Origins of the Human Mind, Brain, and Culture 42 Dietrich Stout 3. Looking at Rocks Together: Tool Production, Joint Attention, and Offline Cognition 59 Rex Welshon 4. Evolution of Cognitive Archaeology through Evolving Cognitive Systems: A Chapter for Tom Wynn 79 Iain Davidson 5. Sticks, Stones, and the Origins of Sapience 102 Philip J. Barnard 6. The Origin of Cumulative Culture: Not a SingleTrait Event But Multifactorial Processes 128 Miriam Noël Haidle 7. Hominin Evolution and Stone Tool Scavenging and Reuse in the Lower Paleolithic 149 Adam Brumm, Matt Pope, Mathieu Leroyer, and Kate Emery 8. FlakeMaking and the "Cognitive Rubicon": Insights from StoneKnapping Experiments 179 Mark W. Moore 9. Stone Tools and Spatial Cognition 200 Derek Hodgson 10. Testing Models of Handedness in Stone Tools 225 Natalie Uomini and Lana Ruck 11. Early Convergent Cultural Evolution: Acheulean Giant Core Methods of Africa 237 Gonen Sharon OUP UNCORRECTED PROOF – REVISES, Mon Jan 28 2019, NEWGEN Overmann170818MEDUS_MSC.indd 5 28-Jan-19 8:33:22 AM vi Contents 12. Cultural Transmission from the Last Common Ancestor to the Levallois Reducers: What Can We Infer? 251 Stephen J. Lycett 13. The Handaxe Aesthetic 278 Thomas Wynn and Tony Berlant 14. The Stories Stones Tell of Language and Its Evolution 304 Shelby S. Putt 15. In Three Minds: Extending Cognitive Archaeology with the Social Brain 319 Cory Stade and Clive Gamble 16. The Evolution of Social Transmission in the Acheulean 332 Ceri Shipton 17. Knapping in the Dark: Stone Tools and a Theory of Mind 355 James Cole 18. A Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Sexual Division of Tasks in the European Upper Paleolithic 376 Sophie A. de Beaune 19. The Enhanced Working Memory Model: Its Origin and Development 406 Frederick L. Coolidge 20. Materiality and the Prehistory of Number 432 Karenleigh A. Overmann 21. Ensnaring the Mind: Cognitive Implications of Setting Snares and Traps 457 Lyn Wadley 22. On the Minds of Bow Hunters 473 Marlize Lombard 23. Epilogue: Situating the Cognitive in Cognitive Archaeology 497 Thomas Wynn Index 505 OUP UNCORRECTED PROOF – REVISES, Mon Jan 28 2019, NEWGEN Overmann170818MEDUS_MSC.indd 6 28-Jan-19 8:33:22 AM vii C O N T R I B U TO R S Philip J. Barnard Honorary Member Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit University of Cambridge, UK Tony Berlant, artist Santa Monica, USA Adam Brumm Associate Professor Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution Environmental Futures Research Institute Griffith University, Australia James Cole Principal Lecturer School of Environment and Technology University of Brighton, UK Frederick L. Coolidge Professor Department of Psychology University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA Iain Davidson Emeritus Professor of Archaeology University of New England, Australia Sophie A. de Beaune Professor Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University Faculté des Lettres et Civilisations, Lyon, and UMR 7041 "Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité," Nanterre, France Kate Emery Institute of Archaeology University College London England, UK Tiago Falótico Postdoctoral Researcher Institute of Psychology University of São Paulo, Brazil Clive Gamble Emeritus Professor Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins Department of Archaeology University of Southampton, UK Michael D. Gumert Associate Professor Division of Psychology School of Social Sciences Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Miriam Noël Haidle Scientific Coordinator Research Center "The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans- ROCEEH" of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, and Institut für Urund Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Abt. Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie, Cognitive Archaeology Unit Tübingen, Germany OUP UNCORRECTED PROOF – REVISES, Mon Jan 28 2019, NEWGEN Overmann170818MEDUS_MSC.indd 7 28-Jan-19 8:33:22 AM viii Contributors Derek Hodgson Adjunct Professor Department of Archaeology University of York, UK Mathieu Leroyer Département d'Histoire de l'art et archéologie (UFR03) Université de Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne France Marlize Lombard Professor Centre for Anthropological Research/ PalaeoResearch Institute University of Johannesburg, South Africa Stephen J. Lycett Associate Professor Department of Anthropology (Laboratory for Evolutionary Anthropology and Anthropological Archaeology) The State University of New York (SUNY), USA William C. McGrew Honorary Professor School of Psychology and Neuroscience University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK Mark W. Moore Associate Professor Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology University of New England, Armidale, Australia Eduardo B. Ottoni Professor Institute of Psychology University of São Paulo, Brazil Karenleigh A. Overmann MSCA Research Fellow Department of Psychosocial Science University of Bergen, Norway Matt Pope Principal Research Fellow Institute of Archaeology University College London England, UK Shelby S. Putt Postdoctoral Researcher The Stone Age Institute and The Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology Indiana University, USA Lana Ruck Doctoral Student Cognitive Science Program; Department of Anthropology Indiana University, USA Gonen Sharon Associate Professor Multidisciplinary Studies, Tel Hai College Upper Galilee, Israel Ceri Shipton Faculty Member Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage Australian National University, Australia Cory Stade Visiting Fellow Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins University of Southampton, UK Dietrich Stout Associate Professor Department of Anthropology, Emory University Atlanta, USA Natalie Uomini Researcher Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Jena, Germany OUP UNCORRECTED PROOF – REVISES, Mon Jan 28 2019, NEWGEN Overmann170818MEDUS_MSC.indd 8 28-Jan-19 8:33:22 AM ix Contributors Lyn Wadley Honorary Professor Evolutionary Studies Institute University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Rex Welshon Professor Department of Philosophy University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA Thomas Wynn Distinguished Professor Department of Anthropology and UCCS Center for Cognitive Archaeology University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA OUP UNCORRECTED PROOF – REVISES, Mon Jan 28 2019, NEWGEN Overmann170818MEDUS_MSC.indd 9 28-Jan-19 8:33:22 AM