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 ...

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 ...

Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

German researchers examined more than 3,000 signs found on 260 objects to reveal insights on the origins of writing. The post ...

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If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be ...

Scientists report that they have developed a new machine-learning system designed to overcome challenges encountered in ...

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