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Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Science@beehaw.org · 3 days ago

First writing may be 40,000 years earlier than thought | Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writing

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First writing may be 40,000 years earlier than thought | Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writing

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Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Science@beehaw.org · 3 days ago
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Scientists believe they have found evidence of written thoughts of Stone Age people on ancient objects.
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    Fascinating.

    And for those of us who… well.
    Are there Cliff’s Notes?

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      It’s a meme from 50k years ago, you had to be there.

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        berrypicker as fuck

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
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        In a way that checks out, given that the book Sapiens proposed that the very earliest need and use for language involved the urge to gossip about others.

        Let that sink in…

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