Arqueología cognitiva: Atisbos de la mente homínida

Aura Ponce de León

Resumen


Cognitive archaeology: seeking into the hominid mind

Throughout its disciplinary history, Archaeology has been concerned with the how and why of the human past that is inferred from the facts and events that constitute the archaeological record. In the last decades, Cognitive Archaeology, a branch of the general discipline that investigates the development of the human mind, has been maturing. Those studies face a twofold challenge: On one hand, to build a sound methodology that can establish an explicit link between archaeological data and a theory on cognition. On the other, to clearly delimit its scope and possibilities, recognizing the yet irresolute debates in the current studies on the mind, including the ontological condition of consciousness. If such research embraces the whole hominid mind, not only that of Homo sapiens, it will be necessarily influenced by the ongoing discussion about the filogenetic evolution of our species.

 

Key words: Cognitive Archaeology, hominid mind, Oldowan, Acheulean, human evolution, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, tool-making, archaeological theory.

 


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