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 Neanderthals.
It seems to me that artistic expression is directly connected to the ability and desire to make and use complex tools, a lot like the ones that we see from the Acheulean period. If that’s correct, it’s potentially way older than even the shell in the article, being instead from a million and half, perhaps two million years ago.
It seems to me that artistic expression is directly connected to the ability and desire to make and use complex tools, a lot like the ones that we see from the Acheulean period. If that’s correct, it’s potentially way older than even the shell in the article, being instead from a million and half, perhaps two million years ago.