Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive abilities of our archaic human relatives, such as ...

For decades, the story of art was simple: humans arrived, creativity followed. Cave paintings, symbolic markings, and ...

Newly uncovered cave art in Europe has revealed that Neanderthals were capable of symbolic expression long before modern humans arrived, rewriting the story of human cultural origins. Researchers ...