Symbolic triggers shape human behavior in profound ways, influencing everything from global mourning to acts of violence. The death of Princess Diana triggered worldwide grief, as she embodied the ...

A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, specifically from Manot, Qafzeh, and Quneitra caves, were deliberately engraved with geometric ...

Bees are not supposed to read code. Yet a new wave of experiments suggests that honeybees can track dot‑and‑dash style light flashes in a way that looks strikingly similar to how humans parse Morse, ...

Archeologists and neuroscientists in France have used brain imaging studies to find out whether Paleolithic engravings could have had symbolic meaning. Some of the earliest human-made engravings are ...

Outgrowth of a symposium at the Society for American Archaeology's 2004 annual meeting. Cf. acknowledgments. Introduction / A. Martin Byers and DeeAnne Wymer -- Section 1. Symbolic and practical ...