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
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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