But others argued that Neandertals were incapable of the kind of
symbolic expression reflected in the jewelry and insisted that modern humans must have been the creators.
Not exact matches
Thus we can not treat artistic
expression as the choice of an external
symbolic form to
reflect feelings which are simply given.
Although some archaeologists argued that the human capacity for
symbolic expression developed over time in Africa, others felt that the European creative explosion
reflected a new leap in human abilities.