Cave art: an early example of information processing.
This article suggests that ancient cave paintings are evidence of new important brain functions, or "evolutionary software," that facilitated the conceptual and motor processes needed to create a visual scene and render it graphically.
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Harvard Medical School, USA.
D000818:Animals; D001072:Apraxias / Q000503:physiopathology; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002648:Child; D005625:Frontal Lobe; D049690:History, Ancient; D015186:Hominidae / Q000145:classification; D006801:Humans; D010151:Paintings / Q000266:history*; D010296:Parietal Lobe; D013561:Symbolism; D014796:Visual Perception