Evolution of Cognitive Archaeology through Evolving Cognitive Systems: A Chapter for Tom Wynn

Iain Davidson

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Evolution of Cognitive Archaeology through Evolving Cognitive Systems: A Chapter for Tom Wynn

Iain Davidson

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<p>I first met Tom Wynn in 1986 at the first World Archaeological Congress in Southampton in the company of Bill McGrew. Tom and Bill were working on their ground-breaking paper comparing chimpanzee material culture with that of early hominids at Olduvai (Wynn & McGrew, 1989). The take-home from their conference paper was that apes were the best model for early hominid behavior. Their conclusion tended toward the view that chimpanzees were more human than they had been thought to be. With my usual intuitive contrariness, I suggested that this implied the early hominids were more ape-like than they had been thought to be.</p>

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Squeezing minds from stones: Cognitive Archaeology and the Evolution of the Human Mind
Editors	Karenleigh A Overmann, Frederick L Coolidge
Place of Publication	New York, United States of America
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	79-101
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9780190854614, 0190854618
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190854614.003.0005
Publication status	Published - 2019

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Evolution of Cognitive Archaeology through Evolving Cognitive Systems: A Chapter for Tom Wynn. / Davidson, Iain.
Squeezing minds from stones: Cognitive Archaeology and the Evolution of the Human Mind. ed. / Karenleigh A Overmann; Frederick L Coolidge. 1. ed. New York, United States of America: Oxford University Press, 2019. p. 79-101.

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