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

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 ...

The Paleolithic era, often referred to as the Stone Age, was a period of time that began roughly 2.5 million years ago and ended around 12,000 years ago. During this time, early humans hunted, ...

A new study has revealed that mysterious signs carved onto Paleolithic artifacts up to 40,000 years ago match the information density of the world's earliest known writing system — pushing the deep ...

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 ...

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

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million years ago, revealing branching evolutionary stories of survival, intermixing ...

According to this interpretation, eyed needles, one of the symbols of the Paleolithic age, were not simple tailoring tools but also instruments for the social and cultural development of prehistoric ...

Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on tides 50,000 years ago? Did the first stirrings of government and bureaucracy ...