These articles discuss key scientific and rhetorical methods and theories regarding the evolution of mind.
Garofoli, D., & Haidle, M. N. (2014). Epistemological problems in cognitive archaeology: An anti-relativistic proposal towards methodological uniformity. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 92, 7-41. DOI: 10.4436/jass.91003
Henshilwood, C. S., & Dubreuil, B. (2011). The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort, 77–59 ka: Symbolic material culture and the evolution of the mind during the African middle stone age. Current Anthropology, 52, 361-400.
Hutchins, E. (2005). Material anchors for conceptual blends. Journal of Pragmatics, 37(10), 1555-1577.
Malafouris, L. (2008). Beads for a plastic mind: The ‘Blind Man’s Stick’(BMS) hypothesis and the active nature of material culture. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 18(03), 401-414.
Wynn, T. (2009). Hafted spears and the archaeology of mind. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 106(24), 9544–9545. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0904369106
Wynn, T. (2002). Archaeology and cognitive evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25(03), 389-438.