Description
Hominids have walked the Earth for about six million years and have evolved culturally very slowly. About 30 thousand years ago, there was an explosion in the archaeological record of mobile and parietal art–figurines and cave painting. This evidence of symbolic behavior suggests that humans were now thinking differently from before. Humans transformed from being just anatomically modern to being cognitively modern as well. This transformation in human behavior placed our species on the trajectory for the successive transformations in human society that have brought us to the level of progress we enjoy today. (This lecture is about Paleolithic Art and Cognitive Archaeology)
