Cave painting from Lascaux, France, showing a bull marked with a sequence of lines JoJan/Wikipedia/CC-BY-4.0
Stone Age people living in Europe 20,000 years ago may have devised a simple form of writing to record the habits of the animals they hunted, according to a study of mysterious symbols on artefacts and cave walls. If confirmed, this would push back the earliest known appearance of a proto-writing system by at least 10,000 years.
At least 400 caves in Europe, such as Lascaux and Chauvet in France and Altamira in Spain, have art on the walls drawn by Homo…
