Title:	The ancient mind: elements of cognitive archaeology
Authors:	Renfrew, Colin EZRA B. W. ZUBROW
Keywords:	Cognition and culture
Issue Date:	1994
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Description:	One of the most taxing problems in archaeology is to determine about what and in what manner did prehistoric people think. Is it possible to make the 'mute stones speak', and will they tell us how (if not what) our predecessors were thinking? A fundamental challenge in archaeology is to develop the theory, methodology and tools to understand prehistoric cognition. It appears that as processual archaeology revolutionized archaeology in the 1960s and 1970s, cognitive archaeology will revolutionize the 1990s and even the early part of the twenty-first century. Cognitive science is still in its childhood and cognitive archaeology is in its infancy. One direction (already followed by some) has been to develop an 'interpretationist', anti-scientific literary approach. This view, allied to the relativist philosophy of 'post-modernism', has been associated with Hodder, Shanks and Tilley, and Leone. A second, recent approach has been to use a linguistic framework and develop a hermeneutic, semiotic approach. This direction has been espoused by Gardin and Peebles.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/53446
ISBN:	0 521 43488 2
Appears in Collections:	Archeology and Heritage Management

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