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40,000 Year Old Markings Reveal What Could Be a Mysterious Ancient Precursor to Writing

Researchers have discovered signs of a Paleolithic writing precursor in ancient tools and sculptures dating back 40,000 years ...

Archaeologists may have discovered the oldest form of writing—ever

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system ...
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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 ...

Enigmatic symbols found in Germany rewrites origin of writing

These mysterious Stone Age symbols from 40,000 years ago could be writing’s earliest predecessors - Information encoded in ...

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 ...

40,000-year-old Paleolithic carvings may be the precursor to human writing

Rows of tiny crosses and dots run along the flank of a mammoth no bigger than your palm. Someone carved it from a tusk around ...