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Più antico esempio di arte simbolica (Homo Sapiens):

An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa – Nature

Abstract and depictive representations produced by drawing-known from Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia after 40,000 years ago-are a prime indicator of modern cognition and behaviour1. Here we report a cross-hatched pattern drawn with an ochre crayon on a ground silcrete flake recovered from approximately 73,000-year-old Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa.

Più antico esempio di arte simbolica (Homo Erectus):

Homo erectus made world’s oldest doodle 500,000 years ago – Nature

Shell markings are the oldest abstract signs ever discovered. A zigzag engraving on a shell from Indonesia is the oldest abstract marking ever found. But what is most surprising about the half-a-million-year-old doodle is its likely creator – the human ancestor Homo erectus. Your browser does not support the audio element.

Linguaggio in Homo Heidelbergensis:

1. Carbonell, E.; Mosquera, M. (2006). “The emergence of a symbolic behaviour: the sepulchral pit of Sima de los Huesos, Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain”. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 5 (1–2): 155–160
2. Martínez, I.; Arsuaga, J. L.; Quam, R.; et al. (2008). “Human hyoid bones from the middle Pleistocene site of the Sima de los Huesos (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)” (PDF). Journal of Human Evolution. 54 (1): 118–124
3. Lozano, Marina; Mosquera, Marina; De Castro, José María Bermúdez; Arsuaga, Juan Luis; Carbonell, Eudald (2009). “Right handedness of Homo heidelbergensis from Sima de los Huesos (Atapuerca, Spain) 500,000 years ago”. Evolution and Human Behavior. 30 (5): 369–76

Linguaggio simbolico presso Homo Erectus:

Semiotics and the Origin of Language in the Lower Palaeolithic – Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not earlier, in the archaeological record of Homo erectus. This controversial claim is based on a broad theoretical and evidential foundation with language defined as communication based on symbols rather than grammar.