The cognitive revolution was an intellectual movement that began in the 1950s as an interdisciplinary study of the mind and its processes. It later became known collectively as cognitive science. ... A key goal of early cognitive psychology was to apply the scientific method to the study of human cognition.
The scientific scholars that are described by the details present in the question provided would be the political anthropologists. By definition, a political anthropologist is a scientist that mainly do his research in the field of analysing the history and the processes of politics as well as how it impact the society.
By roughly 6000 to 8000 years ago, agriculture was well under way in several regions including Ancient Egypt, around the Nile River; the Indus Valley civilization; Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; and Ancient China, along the Yellow and Yangtze rivers.
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