Recent discoveries suggest that the history of writing may be tens of thousands of years older than previously thought, with evidence of early symbolic communication found on objects like mammoth tusks in Germany, dating back 45,000 years. Researchers analyzed over 3,000 characters on various artifacts, indicating that Stone Age people had a complex symbol system comparable to later writing forms in Mesopotamia. This challenges traditional views on the origins of writing and highlights the cognitive abilities of early humans. Teljes cikk (bbc.com europe)