New discoveries are rewriting human evolution faster than ever before. From Denisovan–Neanderthal hybrids to 175,000-year-old underground structures built without sunlight, the old “caveman” ...

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 ...

New discoveries of Stone Age symbols in Germany could push back the history of writing by over 30,000 years, potentially ...

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The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media.