Marks left by Stone Age humans were surprisingly complex
• Their information density rivals the immediate predecessors of writing
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Stone Age symbols may push back the earliest form of writing
• The Adorant figurine, approximately 38,000 years old, consists of a small, ivory plate bearing an anthropomorphic figure and multiple sequences of notches and dotsLandesmuseum Wü
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 by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University
Gotland hunter-gatherer graves hint at how Stone Age families organized
• A woman was buried with two children, but they were not her own. • In another grave, two children were placed. • They were not siblings and were more distantly related, perhaps c