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 ...

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 ...
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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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40,000-Year-Old Stone Age Symbols May Be a Precursor to Written Language

Learn how researchers analyzed 3,000 Paleolithic symbols to uncover structured information comparable to early writing systems.
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1.04-Million-Year-Old Stone Tools Found on Indonesian Island Offer Clues About Some of the Region's Earliest Human Relatives

Archaeologists working on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi have excavated stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years old. The artifacts represent another puzzle piece in the enigmatic history ...
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Ancient stone tools trace Paleolithic Pacific migration

CORVALLIS, Ore – A new analysis of stone tools offers strong evidence for the theory that ancient people from the Pacific Rim traveled a coastal route from East Asia during the last ice age to become ...