In a study published Jan. 5 in the Cambridge Archaeology Journal, a team of scholars suggests that these seemingly abstract dots and lines, when positioned near animal imagery, actually represent ...

Patterns of lines and dots associated with specific animal species ... in the Lascaux cave aroused Ben Bacon’s curiosity about the meaning of the abstract signs and symbols in Ice Age art.

Lines, dots and other symbols painted in caves during the last Ice Age may be the earliest example of proto writing – symbols that communicate a small amount of information like an emoji.

She would weave the lines and dots together with coloured pencils and ... Kunz, working in rural Switzerland, arrived at her abstract language independently of the Modernist movements in Europe ...