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 ...

WASHINGTON: A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 — crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to establish a distinct culture in ...

An object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany — crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the ...

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 ...

German discovery of Stone Age art may reveal a precursor to writing ...

New discoveries of Stone Age symbols in Germany could push back the history of writing by over 30,000 years, potentially ...

For 40,000 years, these bone-carved figurines lay silent, until now, exposing a lost story of our prehistoric ancestors.

Strange symbols carved onto a Stone Age mammoth ivory plate found at a cave in southwest Germany could be the earliest known ...

Statistical analysis reveals ancient bone carvings hold complex information rivaling early Mesopotamian scripts.

Just like algae blooms in the ocean and pollen in the spring, there’s been an explosion in the past year or two of new software, related tools and lingo from the IT and mainstream/consumer side. Some ...

The Adorant figurine, discovered in Germany and crafted 40,000 years ago, features notches and dots indicative of advanced cognitive abilities. New research suggests these marks align more with ...

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