The sapient mind : archaeology meets neuroscience / edited by Colin Renfrew, Chris Frith, Lambros Malafouris.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

xiv, 204 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (1 color) ; 24 cm

Outgrowth of a symposium of the same name held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, from Sept. 14 to 16, 2007. Cf. Introd.

Originally published in 2008 as: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society. Series B, Biological sciences, v. 363, no. 1499.

"The preparation for this volume was undertaken with the support of The International Balzan Prize Foundation."

Neural correlates of early Stone Age toolmaking : technology, language and cognition in human evolution / Dietrich Stout ... [et al.] -- Tool use, communicative gesture and cerebral asymmetries in the modern human brain / Scott H. Frey -- Biology is only part of the story / Dwight Read and Sander van der Leeuw -- Big brains, small worlds : material culture and the evolution of the mind / Fiona Coward and Clive Gamble -- Wild agency : nested intentionalities in cognitive neuroscience and archaeology / J. Scott Jordan -- Between brains, bodies and things : tectonoetic awareness and the extended self / Lambros Malafouris -- Social ontologies / Chris Gosden -- The role of cultural practices in the emergence of modern human intelligence / Edwin Hutchins -- Evolving intentions for social interaction : from entertainment to joint action / Günther Knoblich and Natalie Sebanz -- Social cognition / Chris D. Frith -- Neuroscience, evolution and the sapient paradox : the factuality of value and of the sacred / Colin Renfrew -- Things to think with : words and objects as material symbols / Andreas Roepstorff -- Why religion is nothing special but is central / Maurice Bloch.

Includes bibliographical references and index.