Stone Age people in Europe seem to have recorded the reproductive habits of animals in cave paintings, suggesting an early origin of writing.
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January 4, 2023
Cave painting in Lascaux, France, depicting a bull marked by a series of lines JoJan/Wikipedia/CC-BY-4
Stone Age people living in Europe 20,000 years ago devised a simple script to record the habits of animals they hunted, according to a study of cryptic symbols on artifacts and cave walls. There is a possibility. If confirmed, this would delay the earliest known appearance of a primitive writing system by at least 10,000 years.
There are at least 400 caves in Europe, including Lascaux and Chauvet in France and Altamira in Spain.
