oldest symbolism

There is a BBC report of the oldest symbolism (unless one considers the 1.6
myr old phonolite pebble on which someone pecked the outlines of a face as
symbolism). Any way the report on this 1.2 myr old artefact can be found at
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3512470.stm
Received on Tue Mar 16 22:32:50 2004