There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not ...

The emergence of artistic expression, abstract thought, and symbolic behavior may have occurred much earlier in human history ...

Over centuries, mathematicians have amassed an array of symbols—from arrows and crosses to shapes derived from letters—to ...

A 45,500-year-old cave painting of a wild pig found in Indonesia is considered the oldest known figurative art. This discovery challenges the belief that the origins of art lie in the West ...

The Bot-2-Bot paradigm is rapidly turning into an agent-to-agent one Network supremo Cisco is at the forefront of this evolutionary inflection point Agents will likely have their own language as ...

Rachel Kushner takes inspiration from these scenarios in her Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, Creation Lake. The 56-year-old ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...

His years illustrating pulp novels honed his sense of pictorial drama, and his meticulous research ensured historical accuracy, notably in his Civil War paintings. By Corey Kilgannon Mort ...

As a paleontologist, I traveled in May 2023 to the Indonesian islands of the Riau Archipelago, just south of Singapore, as part of an ongoing quest for evidence of Homo erectus, one of our oldest ...

A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million ... were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones ...

An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. By Siddhartha Mitter A jury found them guilty of conspiring as part of a crew to steal art, sports memorabilia and artifacts from smaller museums.

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. Overcrowding can lead to disaster, and yet ...