The discovery of an incised animal bone in Germany adds to evidence that Neanderthals in Europe were capable of symbolic expression before Homo sapiens got there.
What I have never been able to understand is how these people like Klein can possibly imagine "art" arose due to some mutation that occurred after a little dribble of modern humanity "left" Africa. This is implying a genetic cause. So how can this explain the extensive paintings and etchings KNOWN to have been produced by Kalahari hunter-gatherers, on the walls of cave and sides of rock faces. It is even more absurd when you consider the evidence of art, music, dance, embroidery, tattooing, and jewelry, among all the other modern people in Africa.
What I have never been able to understand is how these people like Klein can possibly imagine "art" arose due to some mutation that occurred after a little dribble of modern humanity "left" Africa. This is implying a genetic cause. So how can this explain the extensive paintings and etchings KNOWN to have been produced by Kalahari hunter-gatherers, on the walls of cave and sides of rock faces. It is even more absurd when you consider the evidence of art, music, dance, embroidery, tattooing, and jewelry, among all the other modern people in Africa.