The Center for Cognitive Archaeology has added a third class to Summer 2022 term, ANTH 4355/5355 Neandertal Cognition!
Join Karenleigh A. Overmann for our online course Neandertal Cognition. Together, we will explore the mind of some of our recent ancestors to compare and contrast similarities and differences between our behavior and the behavior of these archaic humans. After a century of suffering the negative biases of early scholars, Neandertals are emerging from the shadows of prehistory to take their rightful place as explorers and innovators who fought to survive in a heretofore uninhabitable clime. Our course reviews the archaeological evidence via empirical models of cognition in an effort to understand the cognitive and behavioral strategies employed by Homo neanderthalensis during their nearly half million years of existence. Classes begin June 13 and end August 5. Visit https://lases.uccs.edu/programs-a-l/cca for more information.
