Most known prehistoric art is linked to Homo sapiens, which is why for a long time archaeologists have believed that modern ...

Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed a 43,000-year-old pebble bearing a Neanderthal fingerprint, potentially the oldest ...

Most scientists thought that the capability for such symbolic thinking was unique to modern humans, but a new study suggests that it dates back to before the Neandertals. Archaeologist João ...

Early Bronze Age seals from Therasia, Greece may rewrite Aegean history, pointing to the Cyclades as the birthplace of ancient writing.

A study published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences reveals evidence that early humans in the Levant engaged in symbolic behavior much earlier than previously believed.

What is less discussed but nonetheless important is that the symbol has a spiritual component. It is connected to a contemporary religious movement, folkish Heathenry – a form of contemporary ...

her compositions are more abstract and symbolic, filled with an accumulation of signs and symbols that float within vaporous fields of color, occasionally guided by bold gestural marks.