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According to Renfrew and Bahn (1996:369), cognitive archaeology refers to the study of past ways of thought that exhibited by past societies using material remains. Also, Whitlay (1998:5), defines cognitive archaeology as the study of all those aspects of ancient culture that are the products of products of human mind, that is; the perception, description and the classification of the universe (cosmology), the nature of the supernatural (religion), and the principles, philosophies, ethics, and values that by which human values are governed. As an approach to archaeology, cognitive archaeology emerged around the 1990s, but before its emergence, there existed other theories which are explained below. Traditional approach, this was an approach to archaeology that dominated the period before 1960s. This approach was based on the description of cultural phenomena. It used inductive reasoning as opposed to deductive one. Traditional archaeologists also used diffusion theory in de...

Hominid refers to any of the modern or extinct bipedal primates of the family hominidae including all species of the general Homo and Australopithecus . In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species. (World English Dictionary) Generally hominid refers to any human like species including a modern man. They are biological family to which human being belong. Our immediate evolutionary family is comprised of the hominoids, the group of primates that includes the "lesser apes" ( siamangs and gibbons ) as well as the "great apes" ( chimpanzees , bonobos , gorillas , and orangutans ). The ancestors of hominids are regarded as great Apes including chimpanzee, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans , among the great ape our closest relatives are chimpanzees , and bonobos . The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bo...