Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher renowned for his theory of symbolic forms and his philosophy of culture. His thought is deeply rooted in the Neo-Kantian ...

The earliest traces of symbolic material culture of the human race date back more than 500,000 years and are not limited to carved tools, but also to ornaments, body paintings or even non-figurative ...

A nearly 130,000-year-old bear bone was deliberately marked with cuts and might be one of the oldest art pieces in Eurasia crafted by the Neanderthals, researchers say. The roughly cylindrical bone, ...

Culture is central to defining humanity. Throughout history, many definitions have been proposed to describe what we mean when we talk about culture, leading to considerable confusion. But while ...

Learn about the crayon-like tools made by Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic and how these objects likely prove the existence of a complex Neanderthal culture. Humans have used color to ...

“Archaeologists must solidly define what a symbol is …” (Coolidge, 2023). Archaeology is a field that traces the human past through material remains. Symbols are an important part of this process and ...

Rosabelle Boswell receives funding from the South African National Research Foundation. The South African research mentioned in this piece was funded by LOTTO. The thinking is that the journeys, ...

What led humans on the unique path of cultural development? And can we do anything useful with newly reconstructed histories of this process? Culture is central to defining humanity. Throughout ...