##  [Cognitive Archaeology](/index.php/cognitive-archaeology) 

  ##  [Cognitive Archaeology](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/cognitive-archaeology-0) 

  

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**Humanities & Arts Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

The study of past cognition, mental representations and information processing inferred from material culture, symbolic systems and artefactual organization; it uses comparative, experimental and contextual methods to generate probabilistic inferences about collective mental capacities, concepts and practised knowledge without claiming direct access to subjective experience.