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 ...

Earliest known writing dates back over 40,000 years

New evidence published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates humans experimented with symbolic writing as much as 40,000 years ago. If tru ...
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In an age of technological churn, what is left to conserve?

We live in an age of obsolescence. If you are 45 years old you will have seen vinyl rendered archaic by a wave of similarly replaceable technologies: the cassette, the CD, the MP3 player, and the ...
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Signs on Stone Age objects: Precursor to written language dates back 40,000 years

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa ...