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Thomas G. Wynn

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Thomas G. Wynn's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Colorado Boulder
Masters Anthropology University of Colorado Boulder
Bachelors Anthropology University of Colorado Boulder

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas G. Wynn is an American archaeologist known for his work in cognitive archaeology. He is a pioneer of evolutionary cognitive archaeology; his article "The intelligence of later Acheulean hominids" is considered a classic in the field. He taught at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs from 1977 to 2022, where he now holds the title Distinguished Professor Emeritus.

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Thomas G. Wynn's Published Works

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Cultural learning. Author's reply (1993) (745)
Archaeology and cognitive evolution. (2002) (338)
An Ape's View of the Oldowan (1989) (277)
Working Memory, its Executive Functions, and the Emergence of Modern Thinking (2005) (240)
The expert Neandertal mind. (2004) (227)
Primate Calls, Human Language, and Nonverbal Communication [and Comments and Reply] (1993) (184)
The Intelligence of Later Acheulean Hominids (1979) (174)
The Evolution of Spatial Competence (1989) (157)
Piaget, stone tools and the evolution of human intelligence. (1985) (156)
“An ape's view of the Oldowan” revisited (2011) (143)
The intelligence of Oldowan hominids (1981) (130)
Regional Comparison of the Shapes of Later Acheulean Handaxes (1990) (122)
Tools, Grammar and the Archaeology of Cognition (1991) (111)
Executive Functions of the Frontal Lobes and the Evolutionary Ascendancy of Homo Sapiens (2001) (98)
The Rise of Homo Sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking (2009) (88)
The Implications of the Working Memory Model for the Evolution of Modern Cognition (2011) (84)
The handaxe reconsidered (2018) (80)
Two Developments in the Mind of Early Homo (1993) (80)
Beyond Symbolism and Language (2010) (74)
A Cognitive and Neuropsychological Perspective on the Châtelperronian (2004) (72)
Hafted spears and the archaeology of mind (2009) (69)
Evolution and the human mind: Symmetry and the evolution of the modular linguistic mind (2000) (63)
The false dichotomy: a refutation of the Neandertal indistinguishability claim. (2016) (58)
The Rise ofHomo sapiens (2009) (54)
The role of working memory in the evolution of managed foraging (2003) (53)
Hohlenstein-Stadel and the Evolution of Human Conceptual Thought (2009) (52)
Extended mind and visuo-spatial integration: three hands for the Neandertal lineage. (2014) (51)
Archeological insights into hominin cognitive evolution (2016) (48)
A Stone-Age Meeting of Minds (2008) (46)
The working memory account of Neandertal cognition--how phonological storage capacity may be related to recursion and the pragmatics of modern speech. (2007) (43)
Expert cognition in the production sequence of Acheulian cleavers at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel: A lithic and cognitive analysis (2017) (41)
Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution. (2009) (40)
Evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition (1996) (39)
Materiality and Human Cognition (2019) (29)
Technical cognition, working memory and creativity (2014) (28)
The effects of the tree-to-ground sleep transition in the evolution of cognition in early Homo (2006) (25)
Bridging theory and bow hunting: human cognitive evolution and archaeology (2016) (25)
An Introduction to Cognitive Archaeology (2016) (23)
Cognitive Archaeology and the Cognitive Sciences (2021) (21)
Recursion: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? (2011) (19)
The effect of enhanced working memory on language (2006) (18)
Glottogenesis and Anatomically Modern Homo Sapiens: The Evidence for and Implications of a Late Origin of Vocal Language [and Comments and Replies] (1993) (17)
The Cognitive Life of Things (2014) (17)
Cognitive Models in Palaeolithic Archaeology (2016) (15)
Ergonomic clusters and displaced affordances in early lithic technology (2020) (13)
On Tools Making Minds: an Archaeological Perspective on Human Cognitive Evolution (2019) (13)
A faltering origin for the Acheulean? Technological and cognitive implications from FLK West (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) (2019) (12)
Archaeological evidence for modern intelligence (1991) (12)
The role of working memory in skilled and conceptual thought (2002) (12)
The prehistory of number concept (2011) (10)
Bootstrapping Ordinal Thinking (2016) (8)
The Handaxe Aesthetic (2019) (8)
Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology (2016) (8)
Archaeological survey in Mbeya Region, Southern Tanzania (1984) (7)
The Palaeolithic record (2011) (6)
Why Not Cognition? (2008) (6)
The Kiwira Industry and the Later Stone Age of the Nyakyusa Basin (1982) (6)
The Archaeology of Number Concept and Its Implications for the Evolution of Language (2013) (5)
Mbeya Region Archaeological Survey (1981) (5)
New Approach to Analysis the Middle Paleolithic Points of the Iranian Plateau: Style vs. Environment (2020) (5)
The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution (2013) (4)
Dopaminergic systems expansion and the advent of Homo erectus (2017) (4)
Consider the third dimension: A new approach for measuring the symmetry of the middle Paleolithic points of the Mirak Site (2018) (4)
The Evolution of Operational Thought (1977) (4)
Expert Retrieval Structures and Prospective Memory in the Cognition of Acheulian Hominins (2020) (4)
4E cognition in the Lower Palaeolithic (2020) (4)
The comparative simplicity of tool-use and its implications for human evolution (1991) (3)
Instructed and cooperative learning in human evolution (1993) (3)
Sade's Sensibilities (2015) (3)
Sade's Theatre: Pleasure, Vision, Masochism (2007) (3)
Neandertals became extinct while Homo sapiens prospered. A marked contrast in mental capacities may account for these different fates (2016) (3)
Recursion, phonological storage capacity, and the evolution of modern speech (2009) (3)
The Expert Performance Model of Neandertal Cognition (2019) (3)
Archaeological evidence for mimetic mind and culture (1993) (2)
Minds by Design (1998) (2)
The Role of Expert Technical Cognition in Human Evolution (2019) (2)
The devil in the details (2002) (2)
Casting the net wide: Papers in honor of Glynn Isaac and his approach to human origins research (2013) (2)
Bad Books: Rétif de la Bretonne, Sexuality, and Pornography by Amy S. Wyngaard (review) (2014) (1)
A note on the authorship of Voltaire’s La Fête de Bélesbat. (2006) (1)
Cognitive prerequisites for the evolution of indirect speech (2011) (1)
Epilogue: Situating the Cognitive in Cognitive Archaeology (2019) (1)
How Homo Became Sapiens: On the Evolution of Thinking.ByPeter Gärdenfors.Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $59.50. ix + 240 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–19–852850–7. 2003. (2004) (1)
The First Major Leap in Cognition: The Tree‐to‐Ground Sleep Transition (2009) (1)
Charles Palissot, The Philosophes. Edited by Jessica Goodman and Olivier Ferret; translated by Jessica Goodman, Caitlin Gray, Felicity Gush, Phoebe Jackson, Nina Ludekens, Rosie Rigby, and Lorenzo Edwards-Jones (2022) (0)
Lucy to Language: The Benchmark Papers, edited by R. I. M. Dunbar, Clive Gamble and J. A. J. Gowlett (2015) (0)
Landscape of the Mind: Human Evolution and the Archaeology of Thought. By John F. Hoffecker. New York: Columbia University Press. $50.00. xiii + 259 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-231-14704-0 (hc); 978-0-231-51848-2 (eb). 2011. (2013) (0)
Decoration and imagination in four eighteenth-century adaptations of Gerusalemme liberata and the Tancrède legend (2004) (0)
The First Frame: Theatre Space in Enlightenment France by Pannill Camp (review) (2017) (0)
Opinion. Voltaire. Nature et culture. (SVEC, 2007:12) by Jonathan Mallinson (review) (2022) (0)
Spatial Cognition (2022) (0)
Settlement, Society and Cognition: Landscapes in Mind (2016) (0)
Prostitutes and erotic performances in eighteenth-century Paris. (2011) (0)
Situating the Archaeology in Cognitive Archaeology (2021) (0)
Reasoning About Prehistoric Minds (2022) (0)
The Cognitive Life of Things (Malafouris's How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement) (2014) (0)
Book Review:Apes, Language, and the Human Mind Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Stuart G. Shanker, Talbot J. Taylor (1999) (0)
Representing violence in France, 1760-1820 (2013) (0)
Violence, vulnerability and subjectivity in Sade. (2013) (0)
Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution. By KATHERINE ASTBURY. London: Modern Humanities Research Association. 2012. 186 p. 4 illus. £45 (hb). ISBN 9‐781‐907975‐42‐4. (2013) (0)
The Emergence of a Theatrical Science of Man in France, 1660–1740 by Logan J. Connors (review) (2021) (0)
Collaboration and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century French Theater (2012) (0)
The Problem of Names and Subjectivity in Corneille’s Rodogune (2010) (0)
Sade’s Sensibilities ed. by Kate Parker and Norbert Sclippa (review) (2015) (0)
An anecdote in the creation of Sade's 'Les 120 journees de Sodome'. (2016) (0)
Epilogue (2019) (0)
NUMEROSITY, ABSTRACTION, AND THE EMERGENCE OF METAPHOR IN LANGUAGE (2010) (0)
Art and Aesthetics (2022) (0)
The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction (review) (2007) (0)
Clauson—Kaas Pyrrole Synthesis (2012) (0)
Book Review:The Information Continuum: Evolution of Social Information Transfer in Monkeys, Apes, and Hominids. Barbara J. King (1996) (0)
Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Nina Kushner (review) (2014) (0)
Two Cognitive Archaeologies (2022) (0)
Symbolism and Language (2022) (0)
Student Slam: Lithium Ion 2 (2017) (0)
Enlightenment Virtue, 1680–1794. Ed. by JamesFowler and MarineGanofsky. Oxford Studies in Enlightenment, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. p. 296. £60 (pb). ISBN: 978‐1‐789‐62041‐2 (2021) (0)
Manon Through the Lens of Clouzot (1948) (2006) (0)
Methods of Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology (2022) (0)
The evolution of working memory (2021) (0)
Materiality and Human Cognition (2018) (0)
Reimagining Society in Eighteenth-Century French Literature (2019) (0)
Revolutionary Acts: Theater, Democracy, and the French Revolution (review) (2008) (0)
Social Cognition (2022) (0)
The Rise and Fall of Neandertal (2009) (0)
Reflections on Possible Zoomorphic Acheulean Bifaces from Southwestern Algeria (2020) (0)
Suite libertine: vies du XVIIIe siècle by Pierre Saint-Amand (review) (2023) (0)
Sex differences and evolutionary by-products (1996) (0)
Natural History and the Superorganic in Studies of Tool Behavior (2021) (0)
Book Reviews: French Studies (2011) (0)
Seducing the Eighteenth-Century Reader: Reading, Writing, and the Question of Pleasure (review) (2009) (0)
An Introduction to Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology (2022) (0)
The commonplace of theatre as a school of virtue : the case of Voltaire’s Tancrède (1760). (2011) (0)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: The Life of Symbols. Mary LeCron Foster and Lucy Jayne Botscharow, eds. (1991) (0)
Homo heidelbergensis and the Beginnings of Modern Thinking (2009) (0)
The false dichotomy: a refutation of the Neandertal indistinguishability claim (2021) (0)
The Second Major Leap in Cognition: Enhanced Working Memory and the Evolution of Modern Thinking (2009) (0)
Translation, Ethics and Obscenity (2018) (0)
Comprar The Rise of Homo Sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking | Frederick Coolidge | 9781405152549 | Wiley (2008) (0)
Knowing About Kanzi (1999) (0)
Voltaire, Marie-Antoinette, and the Politics of Galanterie (2011) (0)
Improved Rapid Anaerobic Treatability/Toxicity Screening Procedure (2020) (0)
The Foundations of Cognitive Archaeology. Marc A. Abramiuk. 2012. MIT Press, Cambndge, Massachusetts. 316 pp. $40.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0262-01768-8. (2013) (0)
Corrigendum (2020) (0)

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