[ECA は、]民族考古学的および実験考古学の有効性と使用、人類と非人類との間の連続性と断絶の問題、脳の機能と形態に対する現代心理学および神経科学的アプローチによるピアジェの理論の置き換えを含む理論枠組みの選択・適用、学際的なデータの組み込み、言語の起源、人工物の形状から意図を解釈する能力、認知考古学における哲学的転回、そして世代間の蓄積と伝達という謎のような、認知考古学の形成期に提起されたのと同じテーマの多くを、発展させ続けている([ECA continues to] develop many of the same themes raised in the formative decade of cognitive archaeology: the validity and use of ethnoarchaeological and experimental methods; the question of continuities and discontinuities between humans and non-human species; the selection and application of theoretical frameworks, including the displacement of Piagetian theory by contemporary psychological and neuroscientific approaches to brain function and form; the incorporation of interdisciplinary data; the origin of language; the ability of construing intentionality from artifactual form; the philosophical turn in cognitive archaeology; and the riddle of intergenerational accumulation and transmission.)。[1]:6
考古学者らは、石斧がどの山の源から来たのか、青銅のブレスレットにどのような鉱物が含まれているか、丸木舟がどのくらい古いのかを知ることができる。考古学者らは、青銅器時代後期の農場の畑から推定される穀物の収量を計算することができる。これらは客観的な事柄である。しかし、死んだ社会の言語、法律、道徳、宗教は異なる。それらは人間の心に属しているのである。人間の心に属する事柄は、書き留められていなければ、しかも正確に記録されていなければ、よみがえらせることは困難であろう。(Archaeologists can tell from which mountain source a stone axe came, what minerals there are in a bronze bracelet, how old a dug-out canoe is. They can work out the probable cereal-yield from the fields of a Late Bronze Age farm. These are objective matters. But the language, laws, morals, religion of dead societies are different. They belong to the minds of man. Unless they were written down, and even then only if they were recorded accurately, we shall find it hard to recapture them.) —オーブリー・バール(英語版)、『ライツ・オブ・ザ・ゴッズ(英語版)』 (1981, p. 15).[38]
認知考古学は、物的証拠に従って厳密に過去を解釈すべきであるというプロセス考古学(英語版)の主張への反動として、1970年代に始まった。[1]プロセス考古学の厳格な唯物論は、考古学の範囲を遺物の発見と記述に限定してしまう傾向があり、遺物のもつ認知的・文化的な意味についてのより広い解釈を推論によって明らかにできないものとして排除する傾向があった。 社会人類学者 Edmund Leach がかつて言ったように、「世界中が千思万考を尽くしても、失われた証拠はもはや取り戻せない(all the ingenuity in the world will not replace the evidence that is lost and gone for ever,)」、「自分のしていることが当て推量にすぎないことを認識すべきである(you should recognize your guesses for what they are.)」というわけである。[40]:768
マーリン・ドナルド(英語版)の Origins of the Modern Mind (1991)[43]、スティーヴン・ミテンの The Prehistory of Mind (1996)[44]、デイビッド・ルイス=ウィリアムズ(英語版)の The Mind in the Cave (2002)[45] のような初期の何冊かは、太古の心について調査・研究を行うことができるという着想を大衆化する役割を果たした。
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