40,000 Year Old Writing Paper: A Deep Dive

Описание: 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!

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New Paper:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...

Identifying potential palaeolithic artificial memory systems via Spatial statistics: Implications for the origin of quantification (2025 paper):

https://link.springer.com/article/10....

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...

Neanderthal Acculturation in Western Europe? d’Errico 1998

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi...

Tossal de la Roca:

https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Border Cave:

https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebombo...

Laugerie Basse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugeri...

Laugerie Basse Disc:

https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Les Pradelles:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...

Le Marche:

https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marc...)

Solutre’ :

https://journals.openedition.org/pale...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_ar...

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/s4159...

Hohle Fels Cave:

https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohle_Fels

Vogelherd Cave:

https://link.springer.com/article/10....

https://donsmaps.com/vogelherd.html

Geissenklosterle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geissen...

Spatial Statistics:

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