{"id":14150,"date":"2026-02-26T14:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14150"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:01:42","slug":"the-first-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/26\/the-first-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from the Metro UK<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humans could have been \u2018writing\u2019 40,000 years earlier than anyone thought<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by Rory McKeown<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A mammoth figurine found in the Vogelherd Cave. It is around 40,000 years old and covered in sequences of crosses and dots which researchers believe may be the roots of writing(Picture: Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen\/ Hildegard Jensen\/Cover Media)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Stone Age humans were engraving complex, meaningful symbol systems onto tools and sculptures 40,000 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The findings challenge the long-held assumption that writing began in ancient Mesopotamia around 3,000 BCE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An international research team, led by linguist Christian Bentz of Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa Dutkiewicz of Berlin<\/a>\u2019s Museum f\u00fcr Vor- und Fr\u00fchgeschichte, analysed more than 3,000 engraved signs found on 260 prehistoric objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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