These articles discuss cognitive archaeology from the perspective of the evolution of the non-human primates.
Davidson, I., & McGrew, W. C. (2005). Stone tools and the uniqueness of human culture. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 11, 793-817.
Dunbar, R. I. M. (2014). What’s So Social About the Social Brain? In New Frontiers in Social Neuroscience (pp. 1-10). Springer International Publishing.
Haslam, M., Gumert, M., Biro, D., Carvalho, S., & Malaivijitnond, S. (2013). Use-wear patterns on wild macaque stone tools reveal their behavioural history. PloS One, 8, e72872.
Iriki, A., & Sakura, O. (2008). The neuroscience of primate intellectual evolution: natural selection and passive and intentional niche construction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363, 2229-2241.
Orban, G. A., & Caruana, F. (2014). The neural basis of human tool use. Frontiers in psychology, 5, 1-12.
Reader, S. M., Hager, Y., & Laland, K. N. (2011). The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366, 1017-1027.Inoue, S., & Matsuzawa, T. (2007). Working memory of numerals in chimpanzees. Current Biology, 17, R1004-R1005.
Wynn, T., Hernandez‐Aguilar, R. A., Marchant, L. F., & Mcgrew, W. C. (2011). “An ape’s view of the Oldowan” revisited. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 20, 181-197.
Yamamoto, S., Humle, T., & Tanaka, M. (2013). Basis for cumulative cultural evolution in chimpanzees: social learning of a more efficient tool-use technique. PLoS One, 8, e55768.