Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Early hunter-gatherers who lived in the caves of Paleolithic Europe are now thought to have developed something similar to a writing system. The ...

Stone Age people 40,000 years ago used a simple form of writing comparable in complexity to the earliest stages of the world’s first writing system, cuneiform, according to a study of mysterious signs ...

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 groundbreaking new study suggests that the roots of writing may stretch back tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought. Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Stone Age ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Early hunter-gatherers who lived ...