The Evolution of Early Symbolic Behavior

Project Information

eSYMb

Grant agreement ID: 101044626

DOI

10.3030/101044626

Project terminated on 31 August 2025

EC signature date 21 April 2022

Start date 1 September 2022

End date 31 August 2027

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 061 076,48

EU contribution

€ 1 061 076,48

Coordinated by

AARHUS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (1)

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

The evolution of symbolic artefacts: How function shapes form

Author(s): Murillo Pagnotta, Izzy Wisher, Malte Lau Petersen, Felix Riede, Riccardo Fusaroli, Kristian Tylén
Published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, Issue 45, 2024, ISSN 1090-5138
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.03.003

Beyond the image: Interdisciplinary and contextual approaches to understanding symbolic cognition in Paleolithic parietal art

Author(s): Isobel Wisher; Murillo Pagnotta; Eduardo Palacio‐Pérez; Riccardo Fusaroli; Diego Garate; Derek Hodgson; John Matthews; Larissa Mendoza‐Straffon; Blanca Ochoa; Felix Riede; Kristian Tylén
Published in: Wisher , I , Pagnotta , M , Palacio-Pérez , E , Fusaroli , R , Garate , D , Hodgson , D , Matthews , J , Mendoza-Straffon , L , Ochoa , B , Riede , F & Tylén , K 2023 , ' Beyond the image : Interdisciplinary and contextual approaches to understanding symbolic cognition in Paleolithic parietal art ' , Evolutionary Anthropology , vol. 32 , no. 5 , pp. 256-259 . https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21996, 2023, ISSN 1520-6505
Publisher: Evolutionary Anthropology
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21996

Drawing animals in the Paleolithic: The effect of perspective and abbreviation on animal recognition and aesthetic appreciation

Author(s): Pagnotta, M., Psujek, M., Fusaroli, R., Straffon, L. M., & Tylén, K.
Published in: Topics in Cognitive Science, 2025, ISSN 1756-8765
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/TOPS.70023

Dialogues Across Time? Conceptualising the Temporal Relationships of Palimpsests in the Upper Palaeolithic Cave Art of El Castillo (Cantabria, Spain)

Author(s): Izzy Wisher; Eduardo Palacio-Pérez
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2025, ISSN 1474-0540
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1007/S10816-025-09717-5

The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe

Author(s): Izzy Wisher, Thomas Birch, Rasmus Andreasen, Elyse Canosa, Sara Norrehed, Solenn Reguer, Quentin Lemasson, Ester Oras, Kristiina Johanson, Tim Kinnaird, Thomas Birndorfer, Jesper Borre Pedersen, James Scott, Christof Pearce, Felix Riede
Published in: Antiquity, 2025, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications
DOI: 10.15184/AQY.2025.10184

The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance

Author(s): Roope O. Kaaronen, Allison K. Henrich, Mikael A. Manninen, Matthew J. Walsh, Isobel Wisher, Jussi T. Eronen, Felix Riede
Published in: Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Issue 35, 2025, ISSN 0959-7743
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774325000071

On the semiotic and material constraints of ideographies

Author(s): Izzy Wisher, Kristian Tylén
Published in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Issue 46, 2023, ISSN 0140-525X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23000742

Children as playful artists

Author(s): Izzy Wisher, Felix Riede, John Matthews, Murillo Pagnotta, Kristian Tylén
Published in: Hunter Gatherer Research, Issue 11, 2025, ISSN 2056-3256
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
DOI: 10.3828/HGR.2024.38

Other (2)

Experimenting with the past: an integrative approach to early symbolic evolution

Author(s): Isobel Wisher, Kristian Tylén
Published in: 2024
Publisher: PsyArXiv
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/u2jgz

Honing Tools of the Mind: A Dynamic Framework for the Study of Symbolic Behavior in Early Human Evolution

Author(s): Tylén, Kristian; Hussain, Shumon Tobias; Velliky, Elizabeth; Gonzalez, Roberto Martinez; Straffon, Larissa Mendoza
Published in: Tylén , K , Hussain , S T , Velliky , E , Gonzalez , R M & Straffon , L M 2024 ' Honing Tools of the Mind: A Dynamic Framework for the Study of Symbolic Behavior in Early Human Evolution ' PsyArXiv . < http://10.31234/osf.io/b8fz2 >, 2024
Publisher: PsyArXiv
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/b8fz2

Book chapters (1)

An integrative approach to early symbolic evolution

Author(s): Isobel Wisher, Kristian Tylen
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution, 2025
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780192886491.013.14

Conference proceedings (2)

Eyes On the Past: visual exploration of Upper Palaeolithic cave art

Author(s): Wullf, F. N, Kristensen, S. K, Wisher, I., & Tylen, K.
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue 46, 2024
Publisher: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Drawing animals in the Palaeolithic: Investigating the roles of perspective and outline completeness

Author(s): Pagnotta, M., Psujek, M., Fusaroli, R., & Tylén, K.
Published in: Studies in Perception and Action XVII, Issue 79, 2024
Publisher: NTNU