Neanderthals

Harvati-Papatheodorou, Katerina

doi:10.1002/9781118332344.ch28

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“…There are indications that Neanderthals hunted for meat rather than solely scavenging for it and that very large animals, such as the wooly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros, were among their sources of meat (Harvati-Papatheodorou, 2013). Berger and Trinkaus (1995) contended that the head and neck injuries commonly found in well-preserved adult Neanderthal skeletons likely came from hunting large and dangerous prey.…”

Section: Mentalizingmentioning

confidence: 99%

More than language: Mental time travel, mentalizing, executive attention, and the left-hemisphere interpreter in human origins.

Kellogg¹

2023

Psychological Review

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The ensemble hypothesis proposes that language is but one of five cognitive capacities that separate human cognition qualitatively from other animal cognition as a result of their interactions. The ensemble consists of an episodic memory capable of mental time travel, mentalizing to augment social cognition, language for overt communication, advanced executive attention for governing working memory, and inner speech for thinking in the form of causal inference. The order in which each of these components arose in hominin evolution is addressed here. It is proposed that the flourishing of symbolic artifacts during the Upper Paleolithic occurred because, for the first time, all five components were in place and interacting in anatomically modern Homo sapiens.

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Section: Mentalizingmentioning

confidence: 99%