Stone Age Art — Precursor to Writing and Lost Human Knowledge

A 40,000-year-old mammoth figurine from Vogelherd Cave in Germany. Universität Tübingen/Hildegard Jensen

Rethinking the Origins of Human Intelligence For more than a century, mainstream archaeological narratives have portrayed early humans as gradually evolving from primitive survivalists into complex thinkers, yet recent interpretations of Stone Age art increasingly challenge this linear model of intellectual development by revealing symbolic systems that may represent structured communication, advanced cognition, and possibly […]