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

Humans possess a higher-level, universal capacity to grasp abstract geometrical concepts, a study finds. Humans are unique among primates in their ability to create formal symbolic systems that ...

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 ...