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Indian petroglyphs

Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

Source: The Guardian

When we see images of magnificent cave paintings, we tend to focus on the depictions of animals. But interspersed with these figures are symbols that may reveal the beginnings of human language and writing, far earlier than researchers expected.

This entry was posted in How We See Things and tagged Culture & Society, History on August 1, 2017 by Mikki Gibson.

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