Did Humans Begin Writing 40,000 Years Ago? Aurignacian #ancienthistory #science #archaeology
The 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!WorldViewZMedia (tickets to Sedona in the Spring!):
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New Paper:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520385123
Identifying potential palaeolithic artificial memory systems via Spatial statistics: Implications for the origin of quantification (2025 paper):
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02286-4?fbclid=IwY2xjawQM9ItleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe_ol2tIDds3FSYZcfpwju6qPB4Xbe0FYo5A8_XUEau_CTXn83KbIC_rCz3UM_aem_cW1tMkHlGGERaN0hEIGRcw
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:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248419303689
Neanderthal Acculturation in Western Europe? d’Errico 1998
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/204689
Tossal de la Roca:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290379740_Notation_versus_decoration_in_the_Upper_Paleolithic_a_Case-Study_from_Tossal_de_la_Roca_Alicante_Spain
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306290732_El_Tossal_de_la_Roca_In_Pleistocene_and_Holocene_hunter-gatherers_in_Iberia_and_the_Gibraltar_strait_The_current_archaeological_record
Border Cave:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381254940_Technical_Marvels_2_Lebombo_and_Ishango_Bones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebombo_bone
Laugerie Basse:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugerie-Basse
Laugerie Basse Disc:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365579375_Oral_Storytelling_and_Knowledge_Transmission_in_Upper_Paleolithic_Children_and_Adolescents
Les Pradelles:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278416506000274
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-did-neanderthals-and-other-ancient-humans-learn-to-count/
Le Marche:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373140874_Notational_Sequences_Theory_from_Its_Introduction_to_Present_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marche_(cave)
Solutre’ :
https://journals.openedition.org/paleo/2473?lang=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_archéologique_et_botanique_de_Solutré
SignBase, a collection of geometric signs on mobile objects in the Paleolithic:
(Contains most artifacts from the new paper cataloged by number)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00704-x
Hohle Fels Cave:
https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties/faculty-of-science/departments/geosciences/work-groups/prehistory-and-archaeological-sciences/ina/early-prehistory-quaternary-ecology/research/excavations/germany/hohle-fels/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohle_Fels
Vogelherd Cave:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-025-00246-x
https://donsmaps.com/vogelherd.html
Geissenklosterle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geissenklösterle
Spatial Statistics:
https://venn-datagram.medium.com/intro-to-spatial-statistics-with-r-a59de28e289d Receive SMS online on sms24.me
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