AR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Processual Archaeology, Cognitive Archaeology, Grave Goods
22 Nov 2016
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Cognition: general term for higher metal processes through which people acquire knowledge, solve problems, and plan for the future, perception, attention, memory, reasoning, decision making, and problem solving, depends on: Symbols represents object and events not present. Use of symbols: establishment of place: Memories and history reference significant places: measurement: Quantitative description: planning and models for future actions: Demonstrated through models, regularities, and sequences: regulate and organize relations between humans: Symbols convey info from person to person one point in time to another. Represent value, power, and level or organization: represent and regulate relations with other worlds: Concepts of cult, ritual, and super natural powers. Recognized through evidence of ritual burial of jobs and iconography: depiction and representation: Evolution: the development of human capacity for symbolic behaviour. Ability to design and manufacture tools: oldowan reflect important adaptive shift in human evolution, stone tool manufacture, large mammal butchery, novel transport and discard behaviour.
