d'Errico

He-Man and Cringer by Camilla d'Errico, who has art on sale here.

More Masters of the Universe art 2010

Gallery of custom kokeshi dolls by David Horvath, Tara McPherson, Camilla d'Errico, Yoskay Yamammoto, and more.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

A helmet girl Camilla d'Errico painted live in Vancouver.

Paintings by Camilla d'Errico 2010

The pigments were not just smeared onto the body like camouflage, d'Errico says, but fashioned into drawing tools.

Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

Working with Marie Soressi of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, d'Errico has recovered hundreds of blocks of black manganese pigment from two neighbouring sites at Pech de l'Azé in France, which were occupied by Neanderthals.

Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

Body painting, argues d'Errico, is a "material proxy" for symbolic communication.

Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

"The flat, elongated surfaces on the archaeological specimens are consistent, as confirmed experimentally, with producing clearly visible straight black lines, perhaps arranged to produce abstract designs," says d'Errico, who presented his work on 15 March at the Seventh Evolution of Language Conference in Barcelona, Spain.

Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

And, since body art is a form of communication, this implies that the Neanderthals could speak, d'Errico says.

Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

Francesco d'Errico and I went to the museum in December 2004 and identified the two Nassarius gibbosulus, one shell had a hole, the other was covered with concretions.

More than Ornament 2006

Chris Stringer, the well-known British paleoanthropologist, contacted Francesco d'Errico and suggested we should give a look at Skhul collection kept at the Natural History Museum (London) to see whether shells mentioned by the excavators Garrod and Bate in their 1937 report were still there and assess their anthropogenic/symbolic nature.

More than Ornament 2006