Mysterious symbols in cave paintings may be earliest form of writing

by Philippa Kaur 4 January 2023, 17:00 199 Views

Stone Age people in Europe appear to have recorded the reproductive habits of animals with markings on cave paintings, hinting at the early origins of writing

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4 January 2023

By Alison George

Cave painting from Lascaux, France, showing a bull marked with a sequence of lines

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Stone Age people living in Europe 20,000 years ago may have devised a simple form of writing to record the habits of the animals they hunted, according to a study of mysterious symbols on artefacts and cave walls. If confirmed, this would push back the earliest known appearance of a proto-writing system by at least 10,000 years.

At least 400 caves in Europe, such as Lascaux and Chauvet in France and Altamira in Spain, have …

Source: Humans - newscientist.com

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Mysterious symbols in cave paintings may be earliest form of writing

Strengthening electron-triggered light emission

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