Humans May Have Used These Mysterious Symbols to Encode Information Tens of Thousands of Years Be…

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

Latest articles | smithsonianmag.com·@Smithsonianmag·2 months ago

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

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