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

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media.

Deep in a cave in southwestern Germany, a Stone Age artist carved a tiny mammoth from a piece of tusk. They then covered it ...

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

Thousands of markings on objects made around 40,000 years ago may have been more than just doodles, a new analysis suggests ...

“The artifacts date back to tens of thousands of years before the first writing systems, to the time when Homo sapiens left Africa, settled in Europe, and encountered Neanderthal,” explained Ewa ...

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 ...

A new study has revealed that mysterious signs carved onto Paleolithic artifacts up to 40,000 years ago match the information density of the world's earliest known writing system — pushing the deep ...

A team of researchers has determined that the sequences of engraved marks on Stone Age objects, dating back as much as 40,000 ...

Long before the first known writing systems appeared in ancient Mesopotamia, early humans were already carving mysterious ...

Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...