Neanderthals between Man and Beast: A Comment on the Comments of Barceló-Coblijn &amp; Benítez-Burraco (2013)

Johansson, Sverker

doi:10.5964/bioling.8979

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The thinking Neanderthals: What do we know about Neanderthal cognition?

Johansson

2014

WIRES Cognitive Science

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The study of Neanderthal cognition is difficult, because of the archaeological invisibility of cognition, and because of the methodological issues that arise both from that invisibility and from their being close to modern humans. Nevertheless, fair progress has been made in gathering relevant evidence. There is now good evidence that Neanderthals were cognitively sophisticated, displaying many of the cognitive traits that were traditionally regarded as proxies for modern human cognition, notably including language. It can neither be proven nor excluded that they were our cognitive equals, but they were close enough to us, biologically and cognitively, to interbreed successfully and leave a genetic legacy in our DNA. WIREs Cogn Sci 2014, 5:613-620. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1317 CONFLICT OF INTEREST: The author has declared no conflicts of interest for this article. For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website.

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The thinking Neanderthals: What do we know about Neanderthal cognition?

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Neanderthal Language

Botha

2020

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Pursuing an Intriguing but Murky Matter 1.1 Questions and Concerns 'Did Neanderthals have language?' and 'If they did, what was it like?' These questions have intrigued people from the earliest discoveries of fossil remains of Neanderthals in the nineteenth century right up to the present. To many, laypersons and scholars alike, the fascination of these questions has lain not only in what credible answers may reveal about our extinct cousins but also in what they may teach us about ourselves; amongst other things, about whether we are unique in being the only species endowed with language. This makes it understandable why these two questions about Neanderthal language have been pursued over nearly a century-and-a-half by scholars in a range of fields, including anthropology, archaeology, biology, linguistics and palaeontology. This book is about the pursuit of these two questions about Neanderthal language. Its discussion of this pursuit is guided by the following main concerns:

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Neanderthals between Man and Beast: A Comment on the Comments of Barceló-Coblijn & Benítez-Burraco (2013)

Cited by 22 publications

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The thinking Neanderthals: What do we know about Neanderthal cognition?

The thinking Neanderthals: What do we know about Neanderthal cognition?

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