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Archaeology of a Hungry Mind

2018 2019 2021

Why and how did we (Homo sapiens) evolve into a species that is dependent on its human cognitive evolution from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The core of our
‘brains’ rather than its ‘brawn’ for our survival and successful spread across the investigation is situated around technologies (dating from about 3.3 million years to
globe? This is an old question, but recent archaeological and palaeoanthropological 10 000 years ago) that were invented and used to extract a variety of foods that
finds in sub-Saharan Africa, together with breakthroughs in ancient-DNA and helped develop and nourish our increasingly energetically and cognitively ‘hungry’
palaeo-neurology, are dramatically changing what we thought we knew about brains. We flesh out our narrative by interweaving aspects of animal thinking,
human cognitive evolution. Based on our direct involvement with the generation on modern human cognition, brain-selective nutrients, the use of fire, learning and
of primary knowledge about human cognition, Stone Age archaeology, experimental teaching, gene-culture co-evolution and our neurological evolution with the aim to
archaeology, neuro-archaeology and living and ancient-DNA, we aim to explore produce a holistic synthesis.

Fellows involved in this project

Marlize Lombard Anders Högberg Peter Gärdenfors

Fellow Fellow Fellow
South Africa Sweden Sweden

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FELLOWS' SEMINARS

How we learnt to think like

humans – Fellows’ seminar
FELLOWS' SEMINARS FELLOWS' SEMINARS
by Peter Gärdenfors,
Marlize Lombard and
Minds on Fire – Fellows’ Archaeology of a hungry Anders Högberg
seminar by Marlize mind – Fellows’ seminar by
Lombard, Anders Högberg Marlize Lombard, Anders 5 DECEMBER 2018
and Peter Gärdenfors Högberg and Peter
Gärdenfors
15 DECEMBER 2021
22 NOVEMBER 2019

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Introduction to ‘Theoretical Pathways’: Thinking About Human Endeavour Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning
During the Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic
Gärdenfors, Peter and Marlize Lombard. 2020. Technology led to more abstract causal
Högberg, Anders and Marlize Lombard. 2021. Introduction to ‘Theoretical Pathways’: reasoning. Biology & Philosophy, 35(4), 40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-020-
Thinking About Human Endeavour During the Middle Stone Age and Middle 09757-z
Palaeolithic. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-020-09498-z View details →

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The Nature of Culture: An Eight-Grade Model for the Evolution and Expansion
of Cultural Capacities in Hominins and Other Animals
Haidle, Miriam Noël, Michael Bolus, Mark Collard, Nicholas J Conard, Duilio Garofoli,
Marlize Lombard, April Nowell, Claudio Tennie, and Andrew Whiten. 2015. The Nature
of Culture: An Eight-Grade Model for the Evolution and Expansion of Cultural
Capacities in Hominins and Other Animals. JASs Invited Reviews Journal of
Anthropological Sciences 93: 43–70. doi:10.4436/jass.93011.
Still Bay Point-Production Strategies at Hollow Rock Shelter and Umhlatuzana
Rock Shelter and Knowledge-Transfer Systems in Southern Africa at about 80-
70 Thousand Years Ago
Högberg, Anders and Marlize Lombard. 2016. Still Bay Point-Production Strategies at
Hollow Rock Shelter and Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter and Knowledge-Transfer Systems
in Southern Africa at about 80-70 Thousand Years Ago. PLOS ONE 11(12):e0168012.
http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168012

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Indications of Pressure Flaking More than 70 Thousand Years Ago at
Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter
Högberg, Anders and Marlize Lombard. 2016. Indications of Pressure Flaking More
than 70 Thousand Years Ago at Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter. South African
Archaeological Bulletin 71(203):53–59.
http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=271406303572538;res=IELHSS
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Bridging Theory and Bow Hunting: Human Cognitive Evolution and Archaeology
Coolidge, Frederick L, Miriam Noël Haidle, Marlize Lombard, and Thomas Wynn. 2016.
Bridging Theory and Bow Hunting: Human Cognitive Evolution and Archaeology.
Antiquity 90(349):219–28.
http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0003598X15001398
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BOOK/BOOK CHAPTER JOURNAL ARTICLE

Mountaineering or Ratcheting? Stone Age Hunting Weapons as Proxy for the Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to
Evolution of Human Technological, Behavioral and Cognitive Flexibility 350,000 to 260,000 years ago

Lombard, Marlize. 2016. Mountaineering or Ratcheting? Stone Age Hunting Weapons
as Proxy for the Evolution of Human Technological, Behavioral and Cognitive
Flexibility. Pp. 135–46 in The Nature of Culture. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-
94-017-7426-0_12
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Schlebusch, Carina M., Helena Malströom, Torsten Günther, Per Sjödin, Alexandra
Coutinho, Hanna Edlund, Arielle R. Munters, Mário Vicente, Maryna Steyn, Himla
Soodyall, Marlize Lombard, Mattias Jakobsson. 2017. Southern African ancient
genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago.
Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao6266
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Tracking the evolution of causal cognition in humans The role of play objects and object play in human cognitive evolution and
innovation
Lombard, Marlize and Peter Gärdenfors. 2017. Tracking the evolution of causal
cognition in humans. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 95, 219–234. Riede, Felix, Niels N. Johannsen, Anders Högberg, April Nowell and Lombard, Marlize.
https://doi.org/10.4436/jass.95006 2018. The role of play objects and object play in human cognitive evolution and
innovation. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 27(1), 46–59.
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The Still Bay points of Apollo 11 Rock Shelter, Namibia: an inter-regional Causal Cognition, Force Dynamics and Early Hunting Technologies
perspective
Gärdenfors, Peter and Marlize Lombard. 2018. Causal Cognition, Force Dynamics and
Lombard, Marlize and Anders Högberg. 2018. The Still Bay points of Apollo 11 Rock Early Hunting Technologies. Frontiers in Psychology, 9.
Shelter, Namibia: an inter-regional perspective. Azania: Archaeological Research in https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00087
Africa, 53(3), 312–340. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2018.1513240
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