40,000 Year Old Writing Paper: A Deep Dive #ancienthistory #science #archaeology
March 6, 2026
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as posted by the channelThe recent paper discussing the origins of writing being 40,000 years ago in Germany has garnered a lot of attention. In this video, I review it and another similar paper from last year, and offer a better alternative at the end of the video. Hope you enjoy!
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Identifying potential palaeolithic artificial memory systems via Spatial statistics: Implications for the origin of quantification (2025 paper):
Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa: Personal ornaments, bone artifacts, and ocher from Panga ya Saidi, Kenya:
Neanderthal Acculturation in Western Europe? d’Errico 1998
Tossal de la Roca:
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SignBase, a collection of geometric signs on mobile objects in the Paleolithic:
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