Smithsonian Magazine

Humans May Have Used These Mysterious Symbols to Encode Information Tens of Thousands of Years Before the First Writing Systems

The symbols, discovered on 40,000-year-old artifacts in caves in southwest Germany, may have been a precursor to the first written language ...
Greek Reporter

40,000-Year-Old Signs Found in Europe Could Be Humanity’s First Language

Research shows Ice Age humans used structured signs 40,000 years ago as a communication system, revealing deep prehistoric ...
The Debrief

40,000 Year Old Markings Reveal What Could Be a Mysterious Ancient Precursor to Writing

Researchers have discovered signs of a Paleolithic writing precursor in ancient tools and sculptures dating back 40,000 years ...
New Scientist

Stone Age symbols may push back the earliest form of writing

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 ...

Did European hunter-gatherers, not Egyptians, record first ‘writing’? Scientists study 40,000 year-old signs

Early European hunter-gatherers developed a sophisticated method of information storage long before the advent of formal ...

Humans could have been ‘writing’ 40,000 years earlier than anyone thought

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Stone Age humans were engraving complex, meaningful symbol systems onto ...