In recent years, social cognition approaches to human evolution and Material Engagement
Theory have offered new theoretical resources to advance our understanding of the …

Until relatively recently, it was often supposed that changes in the material record of hominin
life indexed advances in hominin cognitive sophistication in a relatively direct way. In …

In assessing the evolution of human beings we need not only explain the development of
bodies and our modifications to ecologies, we also must develop a robust description for an …

This paper examines the inferential framework employed by Palaeolithic cognitive
archaeologists, using the work of Wynn and Coolidge as a case study. I begin by …

The domain of early hominin stone tool making and tool using abilities has received little
scholarly attention in mainstream philosophy of technology. This is despite the fact that …

The structuring of our environment to provide cues and reminders for ourselves is common:
We leave notes on the fridge, we have a particular place for our keys where we deposit …

In this paper, I draw on postphenomenology and material engagement theory to consider
the material and emergent character of sociality in Homo faber. I approach this through the …

© Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research 2017 material symbols (so-
called “symbolic behavior”) was an important cognitive advance amongst late-evolving …

From an archaeological perspective, discussions on the nature of hominin evolution in
regards to the development of language and cognition must also include the methods of …

Accessing the cognitive potential of our hominin ancestors has been a long-standing
dilemma within Palaeolithic studies (Mithen 1996, Caruthers and Chamberlain 2000, Lewis …