Building a bridge – an archaeologist’s perspective on the evolution of causal cognition
The cognitive capacities of fossil humans cannot be studied directly. Taking the evolution of causal cognition as an example this article demonstrates the use of bridging arguments from archaeological finds as starting point via identification/classification, behavioral reconstruc-tions, and cogniti...
Main Author: | Miriam Noël Haidle |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01472/full |
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