A statistical analysis of a series of signs carved into artifacts from around 40,000 years ago suggests humans developed ...

Rows of tiny crosses and dots run along the flank of a mammoth no bigger than your palm. Someone carved it from a tusk around ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa ...

Engravings decorating Stone Age tools and figurines could represent the very first records of information, and thus the dawn ...

A 40,000-year-old mammoth figurine with engraved rows of crosses and dots The history of writing down thoughts and feelings ...

C al Newport has been described as the “man who never procrastinates,” so I expected him to be punctual for our interview. He ...

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

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

A new scientific article on the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age periods in the Khorramabad Valley has been published in the latest issue of the journal of the National Museum of Iran, the head of Lorestan ...

Karnataka's State Archaeology Department is making prehistoric heritage accessible through bilingual digital content and ...

For 40,000 years, these bone-carved figurines lay silent, until now, exposing a lost story of our prehistoric ancestors.

The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media. Archaeologists have discovered Paleolithic glyphs in a German cave that could ...