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Category Archives: Paleoarchaeology

Did they think like us? Paleo people and the Social Assumption

Posted on December 23, 2022 by waz — Leave a reply

Modern day hunter-gatherers from Southern Africa. An AEON article How Trance States Forged Human Society Through Transcendence explores the ideas of Robin Dunbar, a noted anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist with Continue Reading →

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Cave Art and Psycho-Spiritual Assumptions:

Posted on June 18, 2022 by waz — Leave a reply

The Lascaux Cave Apse-Shaft Paintings – circa 17,000 B.P., Dordogne France: This photographic image from a rather inaccesible section of the Lascaux Cave (in a far end and down a Continue Reading →

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A World in Our Heads

Posted on April 3, 2020 by waz — Leave a reply

This essay is about what do we do with our consciousness, every waking minute of thought: model the future and plan behaviors in the world that we consider doing the Continue Reading →

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Father’s Day Musings on Cognitive Evolution

Posted on June 22, 2019 by waz — 1 Comment ↓

If you wiki the term “concept”, you can read for 1/2 hour on the different attempts at definitions of what a concept is: an idea, a mental representation, an abstraction… Continue Reading →

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Posted in Evolution, Neuroscience, Paleoarchaeology, Science | Tagged Evolution, Human Development, Science | 1 Comment ↓

It’s been awhile: A Developmental Perspective on the Cognitive Niche

Posted on December 20, 2018 by waz — 3 Comments ↓

Kids explore, Kids build, Kids figure out how stuff “works”. It’s built-in, innate. Nobody teaches them to zoom across the living room floor to get into…everything. And then start touching, Continue Reading →

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Cave Art: Not Psychedelic, but Normal Human Art: Hunting, Sex, and Scribbling.

Posted on April 10, 2018 by waz — Leave a reply

Wounded Bull and Ice Age hunter with atl-atl (spear-thrower). From nearly 40,000 years ago to almost 10,000 BC, all across southern Europe in over 400 caves and rockshelters, Paleolithic Cave Continue Reading →

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Saber-toothed Cats

Posted on April 2, 2014 by waz — Leave a reply

Human Evolution is not a fantasy resulting from a competing materialistic worldview that ignores the Bible as a science document. Human Evolution is a fact, one of many resulting from Continue Reading →

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“There’s a Caveman in Your Pants”

Posted on January 7, 2014 by waz — Leave a reply

OK, Now that I have your attention… Patrick I kinda doubt it, but Spears? Definitely! Well, not really a caveman, but a Neandertal. And not in her jeans, but fer Continue Reading →

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Posted in Evolution, Paleoarchaeology, Science | Tagged Denisovans, Genetics, Human Ancestry, National Genographic Project, National Geographic, Neandertal, Patrick Star | Leave a reply

The Dynamic Duo of Delusion: Comfort and Ham

Posted on December 15, 2013 by waz — Leave a reply

Go to a bookstore, any bookstore, even one in a rather conservative Xian area like Paducah, KY where the Xian literature and Bibles and Bible accessories take up 3-4 full Continue Reading →

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Posted in Evolution, Humanism, Paleoarchaeology, Religion, Science, Skepticism | Tagged Christianity, creationism, Ken Ham, Lale Labuko, National Geographic, Ray Comfort | Leave a reply

Paleolithic Art and Cognitive Evolution

Posted on December 10, 2013 by waz — 1 Comment ↓

So to take a short break from religion bashing, which is not to say religion shouldn’t get the drubbing it deserves, but the New Enlightenment is much more than the Continue Reading →

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Posted in Evolution, Paleoarchaeology, Psychology, Science | Tagged Dale Guthrie, Stone Tools, The Nature of Paleolithic Art | 1 Comment ↓

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