Paleolithic humans invented an 'early predecessor to writing' at least 40,000 years ago, carved signs suggest

A statistical analysis of a series of signs carved into artifacts from around 40,000 years ago suggests humans developed ...

These mysterious Stone Age symbols from 40,000 years ago could be writing’s earliest predecessors

Strange symbols carved onto a Stone Age mammoth ivory plate found at a cave in southwest Germany could be the earliest known ...
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40,000-year-old signs show humans were recording information long before writing

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...
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Stone Age symbols may have encoded information long before writing

New research shows early humans created structured ancient symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing appeared.

40,000-year-old Stone Age symbols may have paved the way for writing, long before Mesopotamia

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...