science
First writing may be 40,000 years earlier than thought
Humans Were Making Marks 80,000 Years Ago. The Urge to Record Never Changes.
What Happened
Researchers have discovered evidence suggesting that early humans were creating systematic marks or proto-writing as early as 80,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline for human symbolic communication by approximately 40,000 years from previous estimates.
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